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cuatlapana.

Headword: 
cuatlapana.
Principal English Translation: 

for one’s head to break, be crushed; to smash, crush someone’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuātlapāna
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːtɬɑpɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀTLAPĀN(A) vrefl,vt for one’s head to break, be crushed; to smash, crush someone’s head / quebrarse o quebrantarse la cabeza (M), quebrantar a otro la cabeza (M) See CUĀ(I)-TL, TLAPĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.