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chachatl.

Headword: 
chachatl.
Principal English Translation: 

locust (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tʃɑtʃɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHACHA-TL pl: -MEH locust / langosta (K) [(1)Tp.169]. This is only attested in the compound ĀCACHACHA -TL of which M has what appears to be a shortened form acachatl. See CHAPOL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 44.

See also: 
acachatl.
chapolin.
acachachatl.