for one’s head to break, be crushed; to smash, crush someone’s head (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cuātlapāna
IPAspelling:
kwɑːtɬɑpɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen:
CUĀTLAPĀN(A) vrefl,vt for one’s head to break, be crushed; to smash, crush someone’s head / quebrarse o quebrantarse la cabeza (M), quebrantar a otro la cabeza (M) See CUĀ(I)-TL, TLAPĀN(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.