in the manner of quetzal feathers, as something very precious (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
ketsɑltew
Frances Karttunen:
QUETZALTEUH in the manner of quetzal feathers, as something very precious / a manera de quetzales (C) [(1)Cf.18v]. See QUETZAL-LI, -TEUH. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 210.