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acachiquihuitl.

Headword: 
acachiquihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a reed or a cane basket, at least in some places used for tortillas

Orthographic Variants: 
acachiquiuitl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːkɑtʃikiwitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

acachiquiuitl. canasto hecho de cañas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 1r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀCACHIQUIHU(I)-TL reed basket / canasto hecho de cañas (M), jícara para tortillas (X)[(3)Xp.25]. The initial vowel is not marked long in the attestation. See ĀCA-TL, CHIQUIHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 1.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Karttunen provides the Spanish translation, "jícara para tortillas" and notes that "the initial vowel is not marked long in the attestation" in Xalitla.
Cleofas Ramírez de Alejandro and Karen Dakin, Vocabulario náhuatl de Xalitla, Guerrero; Cuadernos de la Casa Chata 25 (Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1979), 25.

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