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tlapitzhuia.

Headword: 
tlapitzhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a high pitched sound like an alarmed turkey or a crying child (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapitzhuiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpitswiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPITZHUIĀ to make a high pitched sound like an alarmed turkey or a crying child / hace ruido el guajolote al ver un gavilán, llora niño con voz delgadita (T) [(1)Tp.234). See PIPITZCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.

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