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ixtilli.

Headword: 
ixtilli.
Principal English Translation: 

person of authority (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxtīlli
IPAspelling: 
iːʃtiːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXTĪL-LI person of authority / persona de autoridad (C) [(1)Cf.119r]. By regular derivation from ĪXTIĀ, the vowel of the second syllable should be long, but C fails to so mark it. See ĪXTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 120.