stake, forked stick set in the ground (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cuauhtōctli
IPAspelling:
kwɑwtoːktɬi
Frances Karttunen:
CUAUHTŌC-TLI pl: -MEH stake, forked stick set in the ground / árbol o estaca para plantar (M), horcón, horqueta (T) [(1)Tp.119,(4)Zp.56,150,187]. In one attestation Z fails to mark the vowel of the second syllable long. See CUAHU(I)-TL, TŌCA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 65.