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xipintic.

Headword: 
xipintic.
Principal English Translation: 

knot in a tree, bump (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃipintik
Frances Karttunen: 

XIPINTIC knot in a tree, bump / nudo de árbol (Z) [(2)Zp.89,228]. In one attestation the vowels of the second and third syllables are marked long. In the other none of the vowels are so marked. See XIPIN-TLI, XIHXIPINTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 325–326.