quichpayatl.

Headword: 
quichpayatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of bird (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quichpāyatl
IPAspelling: 
kitʃpɑːyɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

QUICHPĀYA-TL pl: -PĀPĀYAMEH a type of bird / agarista (pájaro) (T) [(2)Tp.185,243]. T has the reflex of Ó for Ā in the reduplicated syllable of the plural form. Possibly the first element of this is a truncation of OQUICH-TLI 'male.' See PĀYĀ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 210–211.