Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

ecauhtilia.

Headword: 
ecauhtilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to lighten something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ehcauhtiliā
IPAspelling: 
ehkɑwtiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

EHCAUHTILIĀ vt to lighten something / lo hace menos pesado (Z) [(2)Zp.97,187]. It seems plausible to relate this in sense to EHCAUHYŌ-TL, referring to shadows and light , insubstantial things. It is opposite in sense from ETIY(A) ‘to be heavy.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 75.