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yacapitztli.

Headword: 
yacapitztli.
Principal English Translation: 

point (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
yɑkɑpitstɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

YACAPITZ-TLI possessed form: –YACAPITZ~ -YACAPITZYŌ point / punta, la punta de aguja (X) [(2)Xp.49]. This is only attested in alternative possessed forms without the absolutive suffix. See YAC(A)-TL, PITZAC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 333.

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