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pitzotilia.

Headword: 
pitzotilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to soil oneself; to make something ugly, to defile something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pitzotiliā
IPAspelling: 
pitsotiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PITZOTILIĀ vrefl,vt to soil oneself; to make something ugly, to defile something / se ensucia (Z), lo hace feo, lo afea, lo mancha (T) See PITZO-TL.

PITZOTILILIĀ applic. PITZOTILIĀ.

PITZOTILĪLŌ nonact. PITZOTILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 198.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)