coral tree (Erythrina coralloides, Erythrina americana) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tzompāmitl
IPAspelling:
tsompɑːmitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
TZOMPĀM(I)-TL coral tree (Erythrina coralloides, Erythrina americana) / colorín, zompancle, gáspara (árbol) (T) [(2)Tp.244]. A common variant of this is TZOMPĀN-TLI. The length of the vowel in the second syllable distinguishes it from tzompantli ‘skull rack,’ which is a construction of TZON-TLI and locative –PAN. See TZON-TLI, PĀM(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316.