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pitzehuatl.

Headword: 
pitzehuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

skin (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pītzēhuatl
IPAspelling: 
piːtseːwɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

PĪTZĒHUA-TL inalienably possessed form: -PĪTZĒHUAYŌ skin / su cutis (Z for possessed form) [(1)Zp.37,160]. Z also has PĪCHĒHUA-TL with the same sense. See ĒHUA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 198.

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