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popolotza.

Headword: 
popolotza.
Principal English Translation: 

to speak in such a way that others fail to understand, to make one's speech unintelligible, to say something in a foreign language (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
popolotsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

POPOLOTZ(A) vt to speak in such a way that others fail to understand, to make one's speech unintelligible, to say something in a foreign language / no hacerse comprender, hablar una lengua bárbara (S) [(2)Cf.74v]. See POLŌN(I), POPOLOCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 203.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition