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chilatlahuic.

Headword: 
chilatlahuic.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of mild chili pepper (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīlatlāhuic
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːlɑtɬɑːwik
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪLATLĀHUIC a type of mild chili pepper / chile pasilla (T) [(1)Tp.125]. Because of the characteristic reduction in T, the intervocalic L may represent a geminate. Possibly the second element is related to TLĀHUIĀ and has to do with redness. See CHĪL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 51.