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piyazteteca.

Headword: 
piyazteteca.
Principal English Translation: 

to lie stretched out; to lay something straight (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
piyāztētēca
IPAspelling: 
piyɑːsteːteːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PIYĀZTĒTĒCA vrefl.vt to lie stretched out; to lay something straight / se acuesta estirado (T), lo acuesta bien derecho (T) [(6)Tp.155,198]. T has YOZ for YĀZ See PIYĀZTIC, TĒTĒCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 199.