xacalmoyotl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

xacalmoyotl.

Principal English Translation:

mosquito (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

xahcalmōyōtl

IPAspelling:

ʃɑhkɑlmoːyoːtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

XAHCALMŌYŌ-TL mosquito / zancudo, mosco, mosquito (Z) [(1)Zp.227]. This literal meaning of this is ‘jacal-fly.’ See XAHCAL-LI, MŌYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 321.