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huihuitztla.

Headword: 
huihuitztla.
Principal English Translation: 

briar patch (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huihhuitztlah, uiuitztla
IPAspelling: 
wihwitstɬɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

uiuitztla. lugar lleno de espinas o puyas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUIHHUITZTLAH briar patch / lugar lleno de espinas o puyas (M) [(1)Tp.111]. M also has the unreduplicated form HUITZTLAH. See HUITLZ-TLI, -YOH.

HUITZTLAH See HUIHHUITZTLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.

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