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tzotzomatatapatli.

Headword: 
tzotzomatatapatli.
Principal English Translation: 

old clothes (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzotzomahtatapahtli
IPAspelling: 
tsotsomɑhtɑtɑpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOTZOMAHTATAPAH-TLI old clothes / ropa vieja (T) [(1)Tp.135]. T has lost the glottal stop of the third syllable and possibly one from the initial syllable as well. See TZOHTZOMAH-TLI, TATAPAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 319.

themes: 
Aging (People, Things)
Textiles, Clothing