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tzonilpia.

Headword: 
tzonilpia.
Principal English Translation: 

to braid one’s hair (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzonilpiā
IPAspelling: 
tsonilpiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONILPIĀ vrefl to braid one’s hair / hace trenzas (Z) [(2)Zp.125,174]. See TZON-TLI, (I)LPIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 317.