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colotla.

Headword: 
colotla.
Principal English Translation: 

a place teeming with scorpions (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cōlōtlah
IPAspelling: 
koːloːtɬɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

CŌLŌTLAH a place teeming with scorpions / tiene mucho alacrán (T) [(2)Tp.122]. See CŌLŌ-TL, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 41.