tennacatl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

tennacatl.

Headword:

tennacatl.

Principal English Translation:

the flesh of the lips (Sahagún); the gums of the mouth (Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

tēnnacatl

IPAspelling:

teːnnɑkɑtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

TĒNNAC(A)-TL the gums of the mouth; an inalienably possessed form
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225.

Attestations from sources in English:

tennacatl = the flesh of the lips (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 96.

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