Principal English Translation:
something stringy, sinewy
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 219.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
īchtli, maguey fiber or thread therefrom, and pret. agentive of -ti. The long ī is not certain. 219