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xeltic.

Headword: 
xeltic.
Principal English Translation: 

the change from currency of a larger denomination (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃeltik
Frances Karttunen: 

XELTIC change from currency of a larger denomination / cambio, vuelto (T) [(1)Tp.246]. See XELOĀ, XELIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 323.