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ixxayotl.

Headword: 
ixxayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a tear, tears (see Karttunen); an eye-excrescence, an eye-discharge

Orthographic Variants: 
īxxāyōtl
IPAspelling: 
iːʃʃɑːyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXXĀYŌ-TL tear / lágrima (K) ((I)Bf.11r). The literal sense of this would be ‘eye-excrement’ or ‘eye-discharge’. Either this makes a minimal pair with synonymous ĪXĀYŌ-TL, or the latter is a reduction or reanalysis of this word. See ĪX-TLI, XĀYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 122.

themes: 
Emotions
See also: 
ixayotl.