a bird that eats ticks off domestic animals (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
īxcauhtōtōtl
IPAspelling:
iːʃkɑwtoːtoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
ĪXCAUHTŌTŌ-TL ani, a bird that eats ticks off domestic animals / tordo garrapatero (pájaro) (Z) [(2)Zp.124,163]. Z idiosyncratically has a P corresponding to the UH of the second syllable. This may reflect a confusion between ĪXCAUH-TLI ‘tick’ and ĪXCAPOTZTIC ‘black,’ since the birds is glossy black. See ĪXCAUH-TLI, TŌTO-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 111.