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metlamaitl.

Headword: 
metlamaitl.
Principal English Translation: 

stone rolling pin used to grind cornmeal on the metate (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
metlamāitl
IPAspelling: 
metɬɑmɑːitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

METLAMĀ(I)-TL stone rolling pin used to grind cornmeal on the metate / metlapile, la mano de metate (Z) [(3)Zp. 81, 84. 167]. A more common name for this is METLAPĪL-LI. See METL(A)-TL, MĀ(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.

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