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aquilli.

Headword: 
aquilli.
Principal English Translation: 

red maize (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
aquīlli
IPAspelling: 
ɑkiːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

AQUĪL-LI red maize / maíz colorado (T)[(1)Tp.108]. S has the verb aquili with the sense of burnishing something or applying rouge.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 12.

themes: 
Colors
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking