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tlatzetzelolli.

Headword: 
tlatzetzelolli.
Principal English Translation: 

something sifted, strained, filtered, or shaken (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsetseloːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzetzelolli. cosa cernida o sacudida desta manera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZETZELŌL-LI something sifted, strained, filtered, shaken / cosa cernida o sacudida (M) [(2)Zp.27,216]. See TZETZELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 301.

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