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cuitlalolo.

Headword: 
cuitlalolo.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of beetle (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlālōlō
IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑːloːloː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLĀLŌLŌ a type of beetle / escarabajo (Z) [(2)Zp.54,149]. In both attestations the vowels of all syllables beyond the first are marked long. See CUITL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 73.