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quetzallotl.

Headword: 
quetzallotl.
Principal English Translation: 

plumage

Attestations from sources in English: 

in quetzal = his feather (ornament of a person)
in quetzallo = its plumage (the feathers attached to a bird)
This is the -yō of inalienable possession.
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 99.

themes: 
Feathers