CHĪCHĪMĒCAPAH-TLI a potent medicinal plant / planta medicinal muy célebre, pero demasiadamente activa (R) [(1)Rp.73]. R does not mark vowels of the first three syllables long. An alternative analysis is a compound of CHICHI ‘dog,’ MECA-TL ‘vine,’ PAH-TLI ‘medicine.’ See CHĪCHĪMĒCA-TL, PAH-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 48.