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pitzoilama.

Headword: 
pitzoilama.
Principal English Translation: 

sow (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pitsoilɑmɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PITZOILAMA sow / puerca, marrana (T) [(1)Tp.174]. In T the initial I of ILAMA drops after the final vowel of PITZO-TL, but elsewhere ILAMA retains its initial I adjacent to preceding vowels. PITZO-TL, ILAMA-TL
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 198.

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