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chiquilictli.

Headword: 
chiquilictli.
Principal English Translation: 

cicada (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiquilīchtli
IPAspelling: 
tʃikiliːtʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CHIQUILĪCH-TLI cicada / cigarra (M), chicharra (Z) [(2)Zp.38,152]. The Z form of this item appears to retain a relic of the –IN absolutive suffix, while M has the –TLI absolutive.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.