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cuatlapechtli.

Headword: 
cuatlapechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

pillow (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuātlapechtli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːtɬɑpetʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀTLAPECH-TLI pillow / almohada (Z) [(2)Zp.9,147]. In one of the two attestations Z mistakenly marks the vowel of PECH long. See CUĀ(I)-TL, TLAPECH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.