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chiyahuiztli.

Headword: 
chiyahuiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

fatness, bloat, blight; a plant illness (see Karttunen); see also chiahuiztli

Orthographic Variants: 
chiyāhuiztli
IPAspelling: 
tʃiyɑːwistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CHIYĀHUIZ-TLI fatness, bloat, blight / humor (M), enfermedad de planta (T), gordura, grasa (X) Z has the shortened form CHĀHUIZ-TLI. See CHIYĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 54.

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Plants, Trees, Flora