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Central Nahuatl
Noun
atezcatl
- lake.
Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
From ātl (“water”) + tezcatl (“mirror”).
Pronunciation
Karttunen (1983) and Lockhart (2001) write ātēzcatl; Andrews (2003) writes ātezcatl.
Noun
ātezcatl
- A puddle; a shallow pool.
Derived terms
References
- Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 206.
- Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 13.
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.