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tocotztlalia.

Headword: 
tocotztlalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to sit down, to sink; to seat someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocotztlāliā
IPAspelling: 
tokotstɬɑːliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TOCOTZTLĀLIĀ vrefl,vt to sit down, to sink; to seat someone / se sienta (Z), lo sienta (Z) [(4)Zp.114,174,198]. This is related to synonymous COTOTZTLĀLIĀ by metathesis. See TOCOTZTIC, TLĀLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.