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nacaztilana.

Headword: 
nacaztilana.
Principal English Translation: 

to pull someone's ear (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nacaztilāna
IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑstilɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NACAZTILĀN(A) vt to pull someone's ear / le jala la oreja (T) [(3)Tp.192, (2)Zp.73,190]. See NACAZ-TLI, TILĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 156.

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