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tetemetlatl.

Headword: 
tetemetlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

gizzard, crop (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tētemetlatl
IPAspelling: 
teːtemetɬɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTEMETL(A)-TL gizzard, crop / molleja de ave (M), su molleja (T for possessed form) [(1)Tp.134,(3)Xp.87]. M has tememetlatl with reduplication of the second element of the compound instead of the first. X fails to mark the vowel of the first syllable long, but T does have the reflex of a long vowel. T has I for E. See TE-TL, METL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 234.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.