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tziquil.

Headword: 
tziquil.
Principal English Translation: 

a morsel, bit of something (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsikil
Frances Karttunen: 

TZIQUIL a morsel, bit of something / un poquito (T for TZIQUILTZITZIN) [(3)Tp.109,243,244]. Two of these attestations are as part of the name for the chilacayote squash. See TZIQUILOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.