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tlalayotli.

Headword: 
tlalayotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of squash (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālayohtli, tlalayutli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlɑyohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalayutli. calabacilla siluestre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLAYOH-TLI a type of squash / calabacilla silvestre (M), planta medicinal que lleva unas calabacillas comestibles (R) [(1)Rp.142]. See TLĀ-LI, AYOH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 273.