altepetl

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

--- zorrah at ATT.NET wrote:
> I think I just realized the reason for a:tl (water) + tepe:tl (hill)
> = a:ltepe:tl, by looking at another example:
> The <a:l> looks (or rather sounds) more like a stem ending as in the
> example: tla:lli + tohpolli = tla:ltohpolli 'terrace' ...

If so, [a:ltepe_tl] is *a:lli + tepe_tl, but Karttunen's dictionary
does not list a word *a:lli. (Here, -lli came from -ltli.)