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atexatl.

Headword: 
atexatl.
Principal English Translation: 

something to drink with something ground in it, perhaps a gruel (see Lockhart); entered Spanish as tejate, a frothy beverage served in gourds

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ātexā-tl = something to drink with something ground in it, perhaps a gruel. tlamātzoalli ātexātl, food, the fare. ātextli, something watery and ground, from ātl and teci
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: 
Beverages
Food, Eating, Cooking