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temolotl.

Headword: 
temolotl.
Principal English Translation: 

stone for grinding chilies (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
temōlotl
IPAspelling: 
temoːlotɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TEMŌLO-TL stone for grinding chilies / temolote, para moler (Z) [(4)Zp.120,152,220]. Z marks the vowel of the second syllable long in only one of four attestations. See TE-TL, MŌLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 223.

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