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conchili.

Headword: 
conchili.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of locust, grasshopper (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cōnchili
IPAspelling: 
koːntʃili
Frances Karttunen: 

CŌNCHILI pl: CŌNCHILIMEH a type of locust, grasshopper / una clase de langosta (T) [(1)Tp.122 ]. The plural form is based on an absolutiveless noun. Both *CŌNCHIL-IN and *CŌNCHIL-LI would fail to give a vowel before the plural suffix. In either case the expected plural form would be *CŌNCHILTIN, possibly *CŌNCHILMEH. However, there are attested plurals in IMEH for other words that take the –IN absolutive suffix, and this is the regular plural formation of such words in X. This implies a loss of final N from the absolutive suffix and reanalysis of the remaining vowel as part of the stem.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 41.