ichtli

Pronunciation
Karttunen (1983) writes īchtli; Andrews (2003) writes ichtli; Lockhart (2001) writes īchtli, but says "The long i is not certain."

Noun

 * 1) Maguey fiber.
 * 2) A thread of maguey fiber.
 * 3) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ychtli, hilo de maguei, nich, nochhui, vel nichhui.