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miccatlatlaxiztli.

Headword: 
miccatlatlaxiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

whooping cough (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
miccātlatlaxiztli
IPAspelling: 
mikkɑːtɬɑtɬɑʃistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

MICCĀTLATLAXIZ-TLI whooping cough / tosferina (T) [(6)Tp. 142, (2)Zp. 124, 167]. Z has a variant with the Ā idiosyncratically raised to Ē . See MICCĀ-, TLATLAXIZ-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 146.

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