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xochiyotl.

Headword: 
xochiyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

suet, grease (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xōchiyōtl, suchiotl, xochiotl
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃiyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

XŌCHIYŌ-TL suet, grease / grasa, grosura, o enjundia (M) [(1)Cf.53r]. This is homophonous with the abstract derivation XŌCHIYŌ-TL ‘essence of flowers’ from XŌCHI-TL but it should not be taken as necessarily an extension of it. It may be derivationally related to CHIYAN-TLI ‘chia, oilseed.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 329.

Attestations from sources in English: 

suchiotl = fat; tusochio = our fat; suchitic (xochitic) = fatty (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 97.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking