Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

caxtli.

Headword: 
caxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

cup, vessel (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CAX-TLI pl: -MEH cup, vessel / cajete (T) [(3)Tp.115,171,224]. In T this short variant of CAX(I)-TL has the specialized gloss ‘cup for drinking alcohol.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 26.

themes: 
Ceramics, Pottery