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tlapatzcaloni.

Headword: 
tlapatzcaloni.
Principal English Translation: 

a press for extracting liquid (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑːtskɑloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapatzcaloni. prensa para espremir algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĀTZCALŌNI press (for extracting liquid) / prensa para esprimir algo (M), trapiche (Z) [(2)Zp.125,213]. See PĀTZCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 290.

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