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zoquitla.

Headword: 
zoquitla.
Principal English Translation: 

bog, muddy place (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zoquitlah
IPAspelling: 
sokitɬɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

zoquitla. lodazal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ZOQUITLAH bog, muddy place / lodazal (M) [(1)Tp.223, (2)Zp.16,203]. The vowels of the second and third syllables are marked long in one of the attestations in Z, but they should all be short. See ZOQUI-TL, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 349.