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chachictetl.

Headword: 
chachictetl.
Principal English Translation: 

a good luck stone known as a ‘corn kernel’ (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chāchictetl
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːtʃiktetɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀCHICTE-TL a good luck stone known as a ‘corn kernel’ / piedra de buena suerte, ‘el corazón de maiz’ (T) [(2)Tp.126]. T has the variant CHĀCHTE-TL. The first element is nowhere else attested. See TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 44.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining