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ehecaquetzalcoatl.

Headword: 
ehecaquetzalcoatl.
Principal English Translation: 

whirlwind, dust devil (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ehquetzalcōātl, ehquetzalcoatl, eecaquetzalcoatl, ecaquetzalcoatl
IPAspelling: 
ehketsɑlkoːɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

EHQUETZALCŌĀ-TL whirlwind, dust devil / remolido (T) [(1)Tp.249]. This seems to have lost two syllables. Compate EHCAMALACŌ-TL. See EHĒCA-TL, QUETZALCŌĀ-TL, EHĒCACŌĀ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 76.