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mapiltomahuac.

Headword: 
mapiltomahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

thumb (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahpiltomāhuac
IPAspelling: 
mɑhpiltomɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHPILTOMĀHUAC thumb / dedo pulgar (X) [(4)Xp.52]. X has MĀ for MAH. See MAHPIL-LI, TOMĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 131.