Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

chichiltzapotl.

Headword: 
chichiltzapotl.
Principal English Translation: 

mamey (a type of ) fruit) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīchīltzapotl
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːtʃiːltsɑpotɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪCHĪLTZAPO-TL mamey (a type of ) fruit) / zapote colorado, mamey (Z) [(3)Zp.80,131,151]. In all three attestations Z fails to mark the vowel of the first syllable long. See CHĪCHĪLTIC, TZAPO-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 48.