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tlacopitzcan.

Headword: 
tlacopitzcan.
Principal English Translation: 

narrow, constricted place (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacopitzcān
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkopitskɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACOPITZCĀN narrow, constricted place / reducido (Z) [(2)Zp.107,204]. Possibly Z has lost a glottal stop, and the first element of this should be TLAHCO ‘middle.’ See PITZAC-TLI, -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 256.