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tlapitzoteyo.

Headword: 
tlapitzoteyo.
Principal English Translation: 

narrow place (see karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpitsoːteyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPITZŌTEYOH narrow place / lugar angosto, angostura (T) [(1)Tp.235]. The TEYOH of this is opaque. This would make better sense with TI-YĀN in its place. This contrasts with TLA-PITZOTEYOH ‘ugly place.’ See PITZŌTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.