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xacalmoyotl.

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.