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atlatataca.

Headword: 
atlatataca.
Principal English Translation: 

to dig in relation to water, usually to make excavations related to drainage (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

to dig; n. Class 1: onatlatatacac. atl, tataca.
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), 211.

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