the beard of a turkey, the tassel of hair-like feathers that grow from a turkey’s chest (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
ēltzontli
IPAspelling:
eːltsontɬi
Frances Karttunen:
ĒLTZON-TLI the beard of a turkey, the tassel of hair-like feathers that grow from a turkey’s chest / su escobeta (de guajolote) (T) [(1)Tp.138]. This contrast with ĒLŌTZON-TLI ‘corn tassel’ See ĒL-LI, TZON-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.