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tzotzoltic.

Headword: 
tzotzoltic.
Principal English Translation: 

something thick, crumpled, wrinkled (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzotzōltic
IPAspelling: 
tsotsoːltik
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOTZŌLTIC something thick, crumpled, wrinkled / espeso (T), arrugado (Z) [(1)Tp.244, (2)Zp.14,227, (2)Xp.37]. The vowel of the second syllable is not given long in any attestation, but it should be if TZOTZŌLOĀ is correct and if this is related to TZŌLTIC. See TZOTZŌLOĀ, TZŌLTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 319.