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azcapotzalli.

Headword: 
azcapotzalli.
Principal English Translation: 

ant hill (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
azcaputzalli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːskɑpoːtsɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

azcaputzalli. hormiguero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀZCAPŌTZAL-LI ant hill / hormiguero (M) [(1)Bf.9v,(1)Cf.120v,(1)Rp.65].C has TZ where B and R have Z. See ĀZCA-TL, PŌTZAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 17.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

āzcapōtzalli
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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