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exixitamalli.

Headword: 
exixitamalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of tamale (see Karttunen), which surely contained beans and perhaps another significant ingredient besides maize

IPAspelling: 
eʃiʃitɑmɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

EXIXITAMAL-LI, a type of tamale / tamales pintos (Z) [(3)Zp.119,154,210]. In two of three attestations Z marks the vowel of the first syllable long. See E-TL, TAMAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
See also: 
etl.
tamalli.