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teponazoani.

Headword: 
teponazoani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who plays or beats a teponaztli (log drum) (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teponɑːsoɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

teponazoani. tañedor de 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.
tepunazoani. tañedor de 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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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