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piyaztic.

Headword: 
piyaztic.
Principal English Translation: 

something straight, narrow, vertical (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
piyāztic
IPAspelling: 
piyɑːstik
Frances Karttunen: 

PIYĀZTIC something straight, narrow, vertical / cosa larga y delgada así como hombre, columna, o cosa semejante, o cosa estrecha así como mesa, lecho, o cosa así (M), derecho (vertical—se dice de palo) (T) [(1)Tp.175,(2)Xp.64]. T has YOZ for YĀZ. See PIYĀZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 199.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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