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tlaxocoltiloni.

Headword: 
tlaxocoltiloni.
Principal English Translation: 

leavening (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaxocoltilōni
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃokoltiloːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAXOCOLTILŌNI leavening / levadura, se hace fuerza (Z) [(2)Zp.76,218]. In one of two attestations Z marks the vowel of the second syllable long. See TLAXOCOLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 303.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking