This element is a constituent of many constructions having to do with liquid (See Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
pātz
IPAspelling:
pɑːts
Frances Karttunen:
PĀTZ- This element is a constituent of many constructions having to do with liquid; PĀTZCA 'to squeeze liquid out of something,' PĀTZIHU(I) 'for a swelling to subside/ PĀTZCALAQU(I) 'to sink,' PĀTZTŌCA 'to submerge something,' etc. This preserves the Proto-Uto-Aztecan *P that has been lost in Ā-TL 'water, liquid.' Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 189.