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teponazoa.

Headword: 
teponazoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to play a teponaztli or log drum (see Molina); or, swelling as if with dropsy (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teponɑːsoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

teponazoa. nino. (pret. oninotoponazo.) hincharse como hidropico.
teponazoa. ni. tañer teponaztli.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
tepunazoa mo. (pret. omotepunazo.) yrse hinchando, o yr creciendo.
tepunazoa. ni. tañer tepunaztli.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPONĀZOĀ to play the teponastle / tañer teponaztli (M) [(4)Cf.65v,67r]. See TEPONĀZ-TLI.

TEPONĀCILHUIĀ applic. TEPONĀZOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 231.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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