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ixiztac.

Headword: 
ixiztac.
Principal English Translation: 

something whitish; the whites of one’s eyes (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxiztāc
IPAspelling: 
iːʃistɑːk
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXIZTĀC something whitish; the whites of one’s eyes / medio blanco, el ojo se le puso blanco (T) [(2)Tp.136,137]. There are two derivations here. The sense of ‘something whitish’ involves the modifier ĪX- ‘somewhat,’ while ‘whites of one’s eyes’ is a compound with ĪX-TLI. See ĪX-, ĪX-TLI, IZTĀC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 115.