the sap or juice of the maguey, used as an unfermented drink (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
mexcalātl
IPAspelling:
meʃkɑlɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
MEXCALĀ-TL sap, juice of the maguey used as an unfermented drink / agua o jugo de maguey (Z) [(2)Zp. 7, 168]. In both attestations this is bound with –TZIN. See MEXCAL-LI, Ā-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 144.