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piccatl.

Headword: 
piccatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a wrapping (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pīccatl
IPAspelling: 
piːkkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

PĪCCA-TL wrapping / envoltura (K) [(4)Zp.63,65,157,159]. This is attested in the possessed forms -MĀPĪCCA 'glove' and -CUĀPĪCCA 'bonnet.' M has picca, also in possessed form, referring to the vulva, and S gives piccatl as the absolutive form. S is the only authority for the absolutive form. The attestations from the sources for this dictionary are compatible with this being the possessed form of PĪCQUI 'something wrapped up.' See PĪQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 193.

See also: 
tlapic.
piccatl.