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cuatlapololiztli.

Headword: 
cuatlapololiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

madness, confusion (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuātlapolōliztli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːtɬɑpoloːlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀTLAPOLŌLIZ-TLI madness, confusion / locura, confusión (Z) [(3)Zp.32,77,147]. The second element is a shortened form of TLAPOLŌLTILIZ-TLI. See CUĀ(I)-TL, TLAPOLŌLIZ-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.