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huitztzitziqui.

Headword: 
huitztzitziqui.
Principal English Translation: 

hummingbird (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huītztzītziquih
IPAspelling: 
wiːtstsiːtsikih
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĪTZTZĪTZIQUIH pl: –MEH hummingbird / chuparrosa, chupamirto, colibrí, chupamiel (T) [(1)Tp.111]. The final consonant of this appears only before –MEH and could represent the weakening of some consonant other than H, possibly N. M has tzitzicuini ‘something light, free, nimble,’ which, somewhat reduced could be the second element of this. See HUĪTZIL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 91.

See also: 
huitzitzilin.
huitzilin.