tenxipaltetequi. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

tenxipaltetequi.

Principal English Translation:

to cut someone's lip (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

tēnxīpaltehtequi

IPAspelling:

teːnʃiːpɑltehteki

Frances Karttunen:

TĒNXĪPALTEHTEQU(I) vt; pret: TĒN- XĪPALTEHTEC to cut someone's lip / le corta el labio (T) [(6)Tp. 159,206]. See TĒNXĪPAL-LI, TEHTEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 226.

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