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cuauhtlilli.

Headword: 
cuauhtlilli.
Principal English Translation: 

half-burned charcoal (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlīlli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwtɬiːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHTLĪL-LI half burned charcoal / tizo (Z) [(2)Zp.123,150]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, TLĪL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 65.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense