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tzonacatl.

Headword: 
tzonacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

bat (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzonācatl
IPAspelling: 
tsonɑːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONĀCA-TL pl: -MEH bat / murciélago (T) [(1)Tp.244]. This is peculiar to T; elsewhere it is TZINĀCAN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 317.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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