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pachohuaztl.

Headword: 
pachohuaztl.
Principal English Translation: 

a hair comb (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pachōhuāztl
IPAspelling: 
pɑtʃoːwɑːstɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

PACHŌHUĀZ-TL pl: -MEH comb / peine (T) [(7)Tp.154,172,195]. T's notation is ambiguous between OHUA and ŌHUA, but by general rule the sequence here should be ŌHUA. See PACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 183.

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