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potzalli.

Headword: 
potzalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a mound (see Karttunen), or a hill

IPAspelling: 
potsɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

POTZAL-LI mound / terrero (K) This is attested as an element of ĀZCAPÓTZAL-LI 'ant hill' and the place name ĀZCA-PŌTZALCO. See PŌTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.

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