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oquichpilli.

Headword: 
oquichpilli.
Principal English Translation: 

boy, youth (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
oquichpilli
IPAspelling: 
okitʃpilli
Frances Karttunen: 

OQUICHPIL-LI boy, youth / niño o muchacho (M for honorific oquichpiltzintli) [(5)Zp.86,88,128,180].Z idiosyncratically has PĪL where other sources have PIL. See OQUICH-TLI, PIL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 180.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents oquichpilli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Women, Men, Gender