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pazolli.

Headword: 
pazolli.
Principal English Translation: 

briar patch (see Karttunen), brambles

IPAspelling: 
pɑhsolli
Frances Karttunen: 

PAHZOL-LI briarpatch / maraña (Z for CUAUHPAHZOL) [(4)Tp.119,225,(2)Zp.81,149]. M has pacoltic 'something tangled, matted, thick.' In TEPAHZOL-LI T and X have lost the internal glottal stop. See PAHZOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 185.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents pazolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

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