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yectlamachiliztli.

Headword: 
yectlamachiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

intelligence, knowing something well (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēctlamachiliztli
IPAspelling: 
yeːktɬɑmɑtʃilistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCTLAMACHILIZ-TLI intelligence, knowing something well / inteligencia (Z) [(2)Zp.72,231]. In both attestations Z marks the vowel of CHI long, but it should be short. See YĒC-TLI, MATI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.