potza. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

potza.

Principal English Translation:

to throw up earth, to burrow (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

pōtza

IPAspelling:

poːtsɑ

Frances Karttunen:

PŌTZ(A) to throw up earth, to burrow / echa tierra, tusa (Z for TLĀLPŌTZ(A)) [(2)Zp.126,213]. One of the attestations is TLĀLPŌTZ(A), while the other appears to be TLAPŌTZ(A). See IHPŌTZ(A), ILPŌTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.