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tzalāntiya.

for cloudy water to clear as the sediment falls to the bottom.
# El agua donde está echada empieza a ponerse clara. “Hace rato estaban nadando muchos niños en el arroyo y lo revolvieron, ahora ya se aclaró”.
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tzalantli.

tsɑːlɑntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tzālantli

passageway, opening between things (see Karttunen)

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tzallantli.

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tzana.

blackbird, black starling.
# Un tipo de pájaro, su color es negro, saca mucho el maíz en la milpa cuando siembran, su pico es delgadito. Mi papá cuando recién ha sembrado el maíz, me manda que valla a espantar tordos en la milpa para que no saquen el maíz”.
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tzanaquemitl.

a ritual garment decorated with tzanatl feathers
See A. Wimmer, 2004, cited in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, . Translation here to English by Stephanie Wood.

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Tzanatepehua.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tzanatepeua

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.

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tzanatl.

tsɑnɑtɬ

Slender-billed Grackle, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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tzapa.

tsɑpɑ

a dwarf (see Molina), also a personal name (Tzapa) found in the censuses of Culhuacan, c. 1580

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tzapalli.

a type of fish, a type of bream
Thomas Calvo, Eustaquio Celestino, Magdalena Gómez, Jean Meyer, and Ricardo Xochitemol, Xalisco, la voz de un pueblo en el siglo XVI (Mexico: CIESAS/CEMCA, 1993), 59, 86.

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tzapatl.

tsɑpɑtɬ

a dwarf (see Molina); Molina provides both tzapa and tzapatl, but Launey calls this a suffix-less noun (see tzapa, below)

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tzapaton.

tsɑpɑtoːn

a little drarf (see Molina)

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tzapatzin.

tsɑpɑtsin

a small dwarf (see Molina)

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tzapinia.

tsɑpiːniɑ

to get pricked with thorns or to prick another person (see Molina)

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tzapinticac.

to be upright or erect, having gotten up, or to be standing erect while on one's feet (see Molina)

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tzapocuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
tzapoquauitl, tzapuquahuitl, tzapoquahuitl

a fruit-bearing tree (see Molina); a zapote tree

zapote tree
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tzapocuauhtla.

Orthographic Variants: 
tzapoquauhtla

a fruit orchard (see Molina); or an orchard of zapote fruit trees

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Tzapocuetzin.

a personal name; the name of a ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex)

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tzapotl.

tsɑpotɬ

sapota, zapote, a type of fruit
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

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Tzapotlan.

a place name, a place of tzapotl trees

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Tzapotlantenan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Zapotlatenan, Zapotlantenan, Tzapotlatenan

a deity; "Mother of Zapotlan" was a fertility goddess who invented oxitl (a turpentine unguent used to cure skin ailments) according to Sahagún
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 105.

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