chalchihuitl

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  turquoise

Etymology
Sharing a root with. Shared a logogram in Aztec writing with "water".

Pronunciation
Andrews (2003) and Karttunen (1983) write chālchihuitl; Lockhart (2001) writes chālchihuitl, but says "Some suspicion remains that the first i is long."

Noun

 * 1) A precious green stone: greenstone, jade, turquoise.
 * 2) * 1524,, Coloquios y doctrina cristiana
 * "nci"

- ... auh no yehuan quitemaca ... in chalchihuitl, in quetzalli, in teocuitlatl. ... and they also give ... jade, plumes, gold.