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mapilpipitzoa.

Headword: 
mapilpipitzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to suck someone’s finger (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahpilpipitzoā
IPAspelling: 
mɑhpilpipitsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHPILPIPITZOĀ vt to suck someone’s finger / lo chupa a un dedo (Z) [(2)Zp.39, 189]. See MAHPIL-LI, PIPITZOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 131.