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chihualiztli.

Headword: 
chihualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a possible thing; something that can be done/made

Orthographic Variants: 
chiualiztli
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːwɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

chiualiztli. cosa fatible.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪHUALIZ-TLI something feasible / cosa factible (M), trabajo (Z) [(4)Zp.20,124,151,159]. See CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 51.