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amaxcuitlatl.

Headword: 
amaxcuitlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

mud sludge, sediment (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āmaxcuitlatl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑʃkwitɬɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMAXCUITL(A)-TL mud sludge, sediment / lama (T)[(1)Tp.170, (2)Xp.26]. T has the reflex of a short A in the second syllable. X fails to mark the initial vowel long and has Ō for A in the second syllable. M has amaxac ´delta.´ See Ā-TL, MAXAL-LI, CUITL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 10.

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