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tzitziqui.

Headword: 
tzitziqui.
Principal English Translation: 

something very small (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzītziqui
IPAspelling: 
tsiːtsiki
Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪTZIQUI something very small / muy pequeño (K) [(1)Cf.125v, (1)Tp.244]. According to C, reduplication of diminutives with a long vowel in the reduplicated syllable renders them even more diminutive (f.125v). redup. TZIQUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.