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quiltonil.

Headword: 
quiltonil.
Principal English Translation: 

greens, vegetables (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quiltōnīl
IPAspelling: 
kiltoːniːl
Frances Karttunen: 

QUILTŌNĪL greens, vegetables / verdura (Z) [(2)Zp.128,189]. The second element is not attested elsewhere. Z often omits absolutive suffixes. The full form should probably be QUILTŌNĪL-LI. See QUIL(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 211.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking