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pezotli.

Headword: 
pezotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a certain animal, perhaps a badger (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
peːsohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

pezotli. cierto animalejo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PĒZOH-TLI pl: -TIN ~ -MEH badger / cierto animalejo (M), tejón (T,Z) [(1)Tp.173,(2)Zp.120,182,(4)Xp.63].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 193.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.