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cuitlapayotl.

Headword: 
cuitlapayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of beetle (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlapāyotl
IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑpɑːyotɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLAPĀYO-TL a type of beetle / escarabajo (insecto) (T) [(1)Tp.122]. M has payatl ‘a small woolly caterpillar,’ and elsewhere T has PĀYĀ-TL ‘moyote, flying beetle.’ The O here seems idiosyncratic. See CUITL(A)-TL, PĀYĀ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 73.

See also: 
payatl.
moyotl.