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chichiquilli.

Headword: 
chichiquilli.
Principal English Translation: 

arrow, harpoon (see Molina); or, the crest or guiding feathers on a spear, vane (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tʃitʃikilli
Alonso de Molina: 

chichiquilli. flecha harpon.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHICHIQUIL-LI crest, guiding feathers on a spear, vane / flecha arpón (M) [(2)Tp.129]. The two attestations are in compounds meaning ‘spine’ and ‘cock’s crest.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 49.

themes: 
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry