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tlatoccuahuitl.

Headword: 
tlatoccuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a staff for punching holes for sowing seed, a digging stick (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatōccuahuitl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtoːkkwɑwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATŌCCUAHU(I)-TL staff for punching holes for sowing seed, digging stick / sembrador (palo), coa (Z) [(2)Zp.114,216]. See TLATŌCA, CUAHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 300.

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