tlahuitl.

Headword: 
tlahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

red ochre (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauitl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauitl. almagre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀHU(I)-TL red ochre / almagre (M) This is indirectly attested in the verb TLĀHUIĀ having to do with red firelight and TLĀHUIZCAL-LI ‘the rosy light of dawn.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 270.

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