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echichiletl.

Headword: 
echichiletl.
Principal English Translation: 

a red bean (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
echīchīletl
IPAspelling: 
etʃiːtʃiːletɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ECHĪCHĪLE-TL red bean / frijol Colorado (T) [(2)Tp.46,248]. In one of the rare inconsistencies in T, the entry on the Nahuatl-to-Spanish side has the vowels of the second and third syllables marked short, while the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side correctly has them long. See E-TL, CHĪCHĪLTIC, CHĪL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 75.

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