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temetlatl.

Headword: 
temetlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

type of stone from which metates are made (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
temetɬɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TEMETL(A)-TL type of stone from which metates are made / piedra de metate (Z) [(2)Zp.98,220]. Z has TEMETL(A)-TL and METLATE-TL, both glossed as ‘piedra de metate’ See TE-TL, METL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 222.

themes: 
Furniture, Household Goods
Stones, Masonry