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tzatza.

Headword: 
tzatza.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who is deaf (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsɑtsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZATZA pl:-MEH someone deaf / sordo (T) [(1)Tp.234, (2)Zp.117,175, (2)Xp.97].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.

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