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tlatzcotona.

Headword: 
tlatzcotona.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtskotoːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzcotona. nitla. (pret. onitlatlatcoton.) quebrar hilo, cordel o soga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZCOTŌN(A) vt to break, snap something / quebrar hilo, cordel o soga (M), lo revienta, lo rompe (T) [(3)Tp.210]. See TLATZĪN(I), COTŌN(A).

TLATZCOTŌNILIĀ applic. TLATZCOTŌN(A).

TLATZCOTŌNALŌ nonact. TLATZCOTŌN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 301.