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capotztic.

Headword: 
capotztic.
Principal English Translation: 

black (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑpotstik
Alonso de Molina: 

caputztic. cosa negra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAPOTZTIC something black / cosa negra (M), negro, prieto, tringueño, moreno (T) See CAPOLTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 25.

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