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tenohototiya.

Headword: 
tenohototiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to stammer (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēnohototiya, tenoototiya
IPAspelling: 
teːnohototiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNOHOTOTIYA to stammer / tartamudea (Z) [(2)Zp.120,221]. One of the two attestations is truncated, TĒNOHOTO, which would seem to be an associated noun, but it has the same gloss as the longer item. See TĒN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225.