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pipitzoa.

Headword: 
pipitzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to suck or gnaw on something (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
pipitsoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

pipitzoa. nitla. (pret. onitlapipitzo.) chupar, o roer algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PIPITZOĀ vt to suck or gnaw something / chupar o roer algo (M) T specifically marks the vowel of the reduplicated syllable short. redup. PITZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 197.