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apitzactli.

Headword: 
apitzactli.
Principal English Translation: 

rivulet, small stream (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āpitzactli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːpitsɑktɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀPITZAC-TLI rivulet, small stream / arroyo, riachuelo (Z)[(4)Zp.14,110,141]. The vowel of the second syllable should be short but is marked long in two of the four attestations. See Ā-TL, PITZAC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 11, 12.

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