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xoicpoxihuitl.

Headword: 
xoicpoxihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

indigo plant (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xōicpōxihuitl
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːikpoːʃiwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

XŌICPŌXIHU(I)-TL indigo plant / muite (planta) (Z) (more commonly known as muicle) [(2)Zp.87,229]. the XŌ- here probably has the same ‘green’ sense it has in XŌTLA ‘to bud,’ XŌPANTLAH ‘green time of the year,’ etc. The second element may be derived from (I)CPOĀ ‘to reseed something.’ See XIHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 330.

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