iztaatl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

iztaatl.

Headword:

iztaatl.

Principal English Translation:

salt water (see Karttunen); also, a toponym, Iztaatl, in the boundary list for the Nonoalca of Tollan (Tula)

Orthographic Variants:

iztaātl, yztahatl

IPAspelling:

istɑɑːtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

IZTAĀ-TL salt water / agua salada (Z)[(2)Zp.7,171]. See IZTA-TL, Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 123.

Attestations from sources in English:

yztahatl = one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

themes:

Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine

Names (places)

Water