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tzotzoncueloa.

Headword: 
tzotzoncueloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to wriggle, move in a serpentine manner (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzotzoncuēloā
IPAspelling: 
tsotsonkweːloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOTZONCUĒLOĀ vrefl to wriggle, move in a serpentine manner / culebrea (Z) [(2)Zp.37,174]. This seems to be a reduplicated form of TZONCUĒLOĀ, but the N is missing from both attestations. See TZONCUĒLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 319–320.