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tlatzoma.

Headword: 
tlatzoma.
Principal English Translation: 

to sew (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtzoma
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtsomɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTZOM(A) pret: TLAHTZON to sew / coser (C) [(3)Cf.42r, (8)Zp.7,34,208]. See (I)HTZOM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 267.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlatzoma in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing