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palaxtli.

Headword: 
palaxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

something festering or rotten, a wound, sore, or tumor (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pɑlɑʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

PALAX-TLI something festering or rotten, a wound, sore, or tumor / carne podrida (C for nacapalaxtli), llaga, herida, tumor (S) [(1)Cf.49v]. This implies an unattested verb *PALAY(A) 'to fester, become infected.' See PALĀN(I).

*PALAY(A) See PALAX-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 185.

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