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tlazotl.

Headword: 
tlazotl.
Principal English Translation: 

something perforated, pierced

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑsoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlazotl. cosa ensartada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAZŌ-TL something perforated and strung on a thread, something pierced and bled / cosa ensartada (M), cosa punzada (C), cosa sangrada (R) [(1)Cf.47r, (1)Rp.41]. See ZŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 306–307.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlazotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).