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tzotzotl.

Headword: 
tzotzotl.
Principal English Translation: 

pustule, eruption of the skin (see Karttunen); pimple

Orthographic Variants: 
tzōtzōtl
IPAspelling: 
tsoːtsoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZŌTZŌ-TL pustule, eruption of the skin / grano, viruela (X) [(3)Xp.99].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 320.