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xipetztic.

Headword: 
xipetztic.
Principal English Translation: 

something smooth, bare, bald (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ʃiːpetstik
Alonso de Molina: 

xipetztic. cosa lisa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XĪPETZTIC something smooth, bare, bald / cosa lisa (M), pelado, encuerado (T) [(2)Tp.123,246]. See XĪPETZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 325.