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tzapatl.

Headword: 
tzapatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a small person, what some have called a dwarf (see Molina); Molina provides both tzapa and tzapatl, but Launey calls this a suffix-less noun (see tzapa, below)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzapa
IPAspelling: 
tsɑpɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzapatl. enano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

See also: 
tzapa.