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tlacualtzotzomatli.

Headword: 
tlacualtzotzomatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a napkin for dining (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacualtzohtzomahtli, tlaqualtzotzomatli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑltsohtsomɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUALTZOHTZOMAH-TLI napkin / servilleta (T)[(1)Tp.229]. T has lost the internal glottal stop of TZOHTZOMAH-TLI. See TLACUAL-LI, TZOHTZOMAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 257.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking