Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tlapoxcahuillotl.

Headword: 
tlapoxcahuillotl.
Principal English Translation: 

moss (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapoxcahuīllōtl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoʃkɑwiːlloːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOXCAHUĪLLŌ-TL moss / musgo, moho (Z) [(1)Zp.213]. Z marks the vowel of the second syllable long, but it is not long in the related verb. Z also has O for A in the third syllable. See POXCAHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.