stone trough or bowl for grinding, mortar (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
tekɑʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
TECAX(I)-TL pl: TECAXMEH stone trough or bowl for grinding, mortar / pila de piedra o cosa semejante (M), molcajete (Z) A variant form is TECAX-TLI. M has tecaxtli in the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side and tecaxitli in the Nahuatl-to-Spanish side. See TE-TL, CAX(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 215.