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tlatzotzonqui.

Headword: 
tlatzotzonqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a drummer, a musician, or one who plays an organ (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsotsonki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzotzonqui. atabalero, o tañedor de organos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 143v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZOTZONQUI musician / atabalero o tañedor de órganos (M), músico (Z) [(2)Zp.87,217]. See TLATZOTZONANIH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 302.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"in tlatzotzonqui, in huêhuêtzonqui, teponazoh, teponazoâni," = the beater of drums--the ground drums, the two-toned drums; two-toned drum player (as published in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlatzotzonqui)