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ahuelic.

Headword: 
ahuelic.
Principal English Translation: 

something tasteless, insipid, sour (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āhuēlic
IPAspelling: 
ɑːweːlik
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀHUĒLIC something tasteless, insipid, sour / desabrido, insípido (T)[(1)Tp.169]. One would expect the reflex of AH rather than Ā and a literal meaning of ´not-tasty.´ The single attestation has Ā, however. Possibly the sense is ´water-flavored,´ hence ´tasteless.´ See Ā-TL, HUĒLIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 8.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking