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tenextic.

Headword: 
tenextic.
Principal English Translation: 

something gray, leaden (see Karttunen); the color gray

IPAspelling: 
teneʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

TENEXTIC something gray, leaden / gris, plomo (Z) [(3)Zp.64,100,221]. See TENEX-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tenextic in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

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