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tzatzactica.

Headword: 
tzatzactica.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to be locked (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzahtzacticah
IPAspelling: 
tsɑhtsɑktikɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

TZAHTZACTICAH for something to be locked / cerrado (T) [(1)Tp.234]. M has a different construction with the same sense, tzatzacutimani ‘for doors or the like to be closed.’ There is a loss of labialization before the linking element-TI- here. See TZACU(A), the verb CĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 310.