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tlatepoztlemachiotiani.

Headword: 
tlatepoztlemachiotiani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who brands [e.g., a person or an animal] with a hot branding iron (see Molina; translation here to English by Stephanie Wood)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatepuztlemachiotiani
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatepuztlemachiotiani. el que hierra con hierro ardiendo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 135v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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