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cuauhayacachtli.

Headword: 
cuauhayacachtli.
Principal English Translation: 

mahogany tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhāyacachtli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwɑːyɑkɑtʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHĀYACACH-TLI mahogany tree / caoba (árbol) (Z) [(2)Zp.25,147]. Z also has ĀYACACHCUAHU(I)-TL with the same meaning. In one attestation Z incorrectly marks the vowel of CUAUH long. See CUAHU(I)-TL, ĀYACACH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.