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cuayollotli.

Headword: 
cuayollotli.
Principal English Translation: 

the crown of one’s head, the crown of a tree, treetop (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāyōllohtli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːyoːllohtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀYŌLLOH-TLI the crown of one’s head, the crown of a tree, treetop / la coronilla, o el medio de la cabeza (M), su coronilla, la punta del árbol (T) [(1)Tp.129]. The attestations is a locative derivations that seems to be built on YŌLLŌ-TL rather than YŌLLOH-TLI as in M. See CUĀ(I)-TL, YŌLLOH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 67.