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tlapoztectli.

Headword: 
tlapoztectli.
Principal English Translation: 

something broken, snapped, fractured (see karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpostektɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOZTEC-TLI something broken, snapped, fractured / cosa quebrada así como palo o pierna, brazo, etc. (M) [(2)Zp.111,213]. See POZTEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.