base of a column, stone foundation (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tepehpechtli
IPAspelling:
tepehpetʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina:
tepepechtli. basa de coluna. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TEPEHPECH-TLI base of a column, stone foundation / base de columna (M), empedrado (T) [(1)Tp.225]. See TE-TL, PEHPECH-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 229.