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tzotzomotza.

Headword: 
tzotzomotza.
Principal English Translation: 

to tear something like cloth or paper (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsotsomotsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOTZOMOTZ(A) vt to tear something like cloth or paper / lo rompe (ropa, papel, etc.) (T) [(3)Tp.215]. M has tzotzomoni, the reduplicated form of TZOMŌN(I) with the same sense. See TZOMŌN(I).

TZOTZOMOCHILIĀ applic. TZOTZOMOTZ(A).

TZOTZOMOTZALŌ nonact. TZOTZOMOTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 319.