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petlahua.

Headword: 
petlahua.
Principal English Translation: 

possessor of mats, petates (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
petlahuah
IPAspelling: 
petɬɑwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

PETLAHUAH possessor of mats, petates / dueño de esteras [(3)Cf.56r]. In one of three attestations C marks the vowel of the second syllable long. See PETL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 192.

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