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tlatzotzontli.

Headword: 
tlatzotzontli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsotsontɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzotzontli. atabal tañido, o persona apuñeada, o cosa golpeada, o cosa tupida y apretada.
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: 

TLATZOTZON-TLI something, someone beaten upon; a type of drum / atabal tañido, o persona apuñeada, o cosa golpeada, o cosa tupida y apretada (M), instrumento (de música) (Z) [(2)Zp.72,217]. In both attestations Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long, but it should not be. See TZOTZON(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 302.