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pepetzoa.

Headword: 
pepetzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to pat or stroke something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pēpetzoā
IPAspelling: 
peːpetsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PĒPETZOĀ vt to pat or stroke something / lo acaricia (el perro, etc.) (T) [(3)Tp.197]. redup. PETZOÀ.

PĒPETZOLHUIĀ applic. PĒPETZOĀ.

PĒPETZŌLŌ nonact. PĒPETZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191.