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iztayo.

Headword: 
iztayo.
Principal English Translation: 

something salted (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
iztayoh
IPAspelling: 
istɑyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

IZTAYOH something salted / salado (Z) [(5)Zp. 7, 112, 171, 177]. M has iztayotl ‘brine’ derived with –YŌ rather than –YOH. See IZTA-TL, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 124.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

iztayo = salado (de iztatl, sal)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xli.