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mimitetl.

Headword: 
mimitetl.
Principal English Translation: 

bone (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
mimitetɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MIMITE-TL pl: -MEH bone/ hueso (T) [(1)Tp.142]. T has this and also –MICECUIL- -MIMICECUILM - -MIMICECUILYŌ ‘rib.’ These latter all correspond to OMICICUIL-LI, which is derived from OMI-TL ‘bone.’ Here too T has lost the initial vowel of OMI-TL and performs reduplication on the resulting form. See OMI-TL, TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 148.

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