tejolote
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌteɪhəˈloʊteɪ/
Noun edit
tejolote (plural tejolotes)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texōlōtl (“grinding stone, pestle”), from teci (“to grind maize”) + ōlōtl (“corncob”), in reference to the cylindrical shape of the pestle.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tejolote m (plural tejolotes)
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Further reading edit
- “tejolote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014