jicama, an edible root (Pachyrhizus angulatus) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cahtzōtl
IPAspelling:
kɑhtsoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
CAHTZŌ-TL jicama, an edible root (Pachyrhizus angulatus) / jícama, raíz comestible (R) [(2)Zp.73,143, (I)Rp.68]. Z marks the second vowel long in one attestation and not in the other. This appears in R without diacritics. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.