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chiltototl.

Headword: 
chiltototl.
Principal English Translation: 

a bird with colored feathers

IPAspelling: 
tʃiːltoːtoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

chiltototl. paxaro de pluma colorada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪLTŌTŌ-TL pl: -MEH cardinal (bird) / cardenal (T) [(2)Tp.125,243]. See CHĪL-LI, TŌTŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 52.

IDIEZ morfema: 
chīltōtōtl.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
a kind of red bird.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Ce tlamantli tototl; iixnezca achi coztic huan iyolixco chichiltic; quichihua itlapazol nelhuehhueyac pan cuahuitl imacuayo; campa moxixa yoli cilchilli. “Ne chiltototl axnicamati quen tzahtzi. ”
IDIEZ morfología: 
chīlli, tōtōtl.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlat.
themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Feathers