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aceitecontontli.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
aceitecontontli.
Principal English Translation: 

oil can (lit., a small vessel for oil)

Orthographic Variants: 
aceite contontli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Azeytera. azeyte contontli. chiama contontli. = Oil can: small vessel for oil; small vessel for chia oil. [Molina 1992, I: 18r; vocabulary (VM 1); time range: 1571]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 64.