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acapechtli.

Headword: 
acapechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

reed mat (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ācapechtli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːkɑpetʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

acapechtli. çarço de cañas, o balssa para passar rio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 1v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀCAPECH-TLI reed mat / petate de zacate (Z)[(1)Zp.139]. Z fails to mark the initial vowel long. See ĀCA-TL, PECH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 1.

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acapetlatl.