turmeric (see Karttunen); literally, an herbal remedy for diarrhea (see apitzalli and patli or pahtli)
Orthographic Variants:
āpītzalpahtli
IPAspelling:
ɑːpiːtsɑlpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen:
ĀPĪTZALPAH-TLI turmeric / camotillo, planta conocida. Item otras tres plantas medicinales (R)[(1)Rp.62]. R fails to mark the vowels of the first two syllables long, but T has them long in the verb ĀPĪTZ(A) ´to have diarrhea.´ See ĀPĪTZAL-LI, PAH-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 12.