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ātzīntli.

Headword: 
ātzīntli.
Principal English Translation: 

pulque or other alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage (although, literally, this is "water" in the reverential)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːtsintɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTZIN-TLI a bit of water, polite way of referring to a beverage / pequeña cantidad de agua (S)[(1)Cf.119v]. See Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 14.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Reverential o ātl, water, generally with the meaning beverage, often alcoholic and specifically pulque.

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 211.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens
Beverages
Water