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ixcapotztic.

Headword: 
ixcapotztic.
Principal English Translation: 

something gray, dark, swarthy, someone with a black face (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxcapotztic
IPAspelling: 
iːʃkɑpotstik
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXCAPOTZTIC something gray, dark, swarthy, someone with a black face / (negro claro), gris, medio negro, trigueño, moreno (T), cara negra (Z) This is also attested in Z in the shortened form ĪXCAPOTZ. See ĪX-TLI, CAPOTZTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 111.