to tear something like cloth or paper (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
tsotsomotsɑ
Frances Karttunen:
TZOTZOMOTZ(A) vt to tear something like cloth or paper / lo rompe (ropa, papel, etc.) (T) [(3)Tp.215]. M has tzotzomoni, the reduplicated form of TZOMŌN(I) with the same sense. See TZOMŌN(I).
TZOTZOMOCHILIĀ applic. TZOTZOMOTZ(A).
TZOTZOMOTZALŌ nonact. TZOTZOMOTZ(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 319.