calatl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

calatl.

Headword:

calatl.

Principal English Translation:

frog(s) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

calātl

IPAspelling:

kɑlɑːtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

CALĀ-TL frog / rana (Z) [(4)Zp.105,143,230]. M has milcalatl ‘a type of frog.’ See CACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents calatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes:

Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.