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tzontecontlapana.

Headword: 
tzontecontlapana.
Principal English Translation: 

to break someone’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzontecontlapāna
IPAspelling: 
tsontekontɬɑpɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONTECONTLAPĀN(A) vt to break someone’s head / yo te quiebro la cabeza (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(1)Cf.63v]. See TZONTECOMA-TL, TLAPĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 318.

themes: 
War, Conflict