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chimalquizatl.

Headword: 
chimalquizatl.
Principal English Translation: 

piece of gypsum, plaster of Paris (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīmalquīzatl
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːmɑlkiːsɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪMALQUĪZA-TL piece of gypsum, plaster of Paris / piedra de yeso [(1)Tp.125]. The derivation of this is opaque. See CHĪMAL-LI, QUĪZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 52.