medicinal plant, the bark of which produces a red dye (Jatropha spatulata) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
ezpahtly, ezpatly, ezpahtli
IPAspelling:
espɑhtɬy
Frances Karttunen:
EZPAH-TLY medicinal plant, the bark of which produces a red dye (Jatropha spatulata) / cierto arbusto mecicinal, que destila por incisión un licor como sangre ((R) [(1)Rp.82]. Z has EZCUAHU(I)TL See EZ-TLI, PAH-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 79.