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tzatzatilia.

Headword: 
tzatzatilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to go deaf; to deafen someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzatzatiliā
IPAspelling: 
tsɑtsɑtiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZATZATILIĀ vrefl,vt to go deaf; to deafen someone / se ensordece (T), lo ensordece (T) [(6)Tp.162,214]. applic. TZATZATI.

TZATZATILILIĀ applic. TZATZATILIĀ.

TZATZATILĪLŌ nonact. TZATZATILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.

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