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alaztic.

Headword: 
alaztic.
Principal English Translation: 

something slippery

IPAspelling: 
ɑlɑstik
Alonso de Molina: 

alaztic. lo mesmo es que alactic.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ALAZTIC something slippery, crumbly / lo mismo es que alactic (cosa deleznable) (M)[(Tp.107]. Zp.140 has ALĀXTIC, which is probably the same with the vowel length of the second syllable in error, since the corresponding vowel of Z´s ALAXOĀ is short.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.