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papaltic.

Headword: 
papaltic.
Principal English Translation: 

something dark, black (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pahpaltic
IPAspelling: 
pɑhpɑltik
Frances Karttunen: 

PAHPALTIC something dark, black / negro, oscuro (K) [(1)Tp.136]. See PAHPĀL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 184.

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