quilatl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

quilatl.

Principal English Translation:

a soup made with quelites (from quilitl); a type of vegetable soup (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

quilātl

IPAspelling:

kilɑːtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

QUILĀ-TL a type of vegetable soup / caldo de quelite (Z) [(2)Zp.23,189]. See QUIL(I)-TL, Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 211.

themes:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Plants, Trees, Flora