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chichizayol.

Headword: 
chichizayol.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of fly (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chichizāyōl
IPAspelling: 
tʃitʃisɑːyoːl
Frances Karttunen: 

CHICHIZĀYŌL-IN pl: -TIN a type of fly / mosca que se para en el aire volando (T) [(1)Tp.124]. The literal sense of this is ‘dog fly.’ See CHICHI, ZĀYŌL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 49.