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pacyotl.

Headword: 
pacyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

weft of cloth, fabric, web (see Karttunen); or, joy (see the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl)

Orthographic Variants: 
pacyōtl
IPAspelling: 
pɑkyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

PACYŌ-TL weft of cloth, fabric, web / trama (M) [(2)Zp.124,181]. This appears only in the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side of M. Z appears to have an intrusive vowel between the first and second syllables, PAQUIYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 183.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents pacyotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing