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iztaatl.

Headword: 
iztaatl.
Principal English Translation: 

salt water (see Karttunen); also, a toponym, Iztaatl, in the boundary list for the Nonoalca of Tollan (Tula)

Orthographic Variants: 
iztaātl, yztahatl
IPAspelling: 
istɑɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

IZTAĀ-TL salt water / agua salada (Z)[(2)Zp.7,171]. See IZTA-TL, Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 123.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yztahatl = one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

themes: 
Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine
Names (places)
Water
See also: 
iztac.
iztatl.
atl.