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cuitlazcatl.

Headword:

cuitlazcatl.

Principal English Translation:

a type of ant associated with excrement (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

cuitlāzcatl

IPAspelling:

kwitɬɑːskɑtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

CUITLĀZCA-TL a type of ant associated with excrement / hormiga de mierda (Z) [(2)Zp.68,149]. In the Nahuatl-to-Spanish side this is identified as ‘hormiga pepehua,’ but it is glossed as ‘hormiga de mierda’ in the other side of the dictionary. See CUITL(A)-TL, ĀZCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 74.