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michtlazolli.

Headword: 
michtlazolli.
Principal English Translation: 

small fresh water fish abundant in Michoacan (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
michtlahzolli
IPAspelling: 
mitʃtɬɑhsolli
Frances Karttunen: 

MICHTLAHZOL-LI small fresh water fish abundant in Michoacan / charal (T) [(1)Tp. 141]. Despite the literal sense of its name ‘trash fish,’ this fish is caught and dried and is important to the local economy. T has lost the glottal stop. See MICH-IN, TLAHZOL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 146.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Hunting or Fishing
Water