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tlapitzoteyo.

Headword: 
tlapitzoteyo.
Principal English Translation: 

ugly place (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapitzoteyoh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpitsoteyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPITZOTEYOH ugly place / lugar muy feo (T) [(1)Tp.234]. The TEYOH of this is opaque. This would make better sense with TI-YĀN in its place. This contrasts with TLAPITZŌTEYOH ‘narrow place.’ See PITZOTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.