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amahuitequi.

Headword: 
amahuitequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to beat the paper, in the process of making it (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amauitequi
Alonso de Molina: 

amauitequi. n. (pret. onamauitec.) batir papel, quando lo hazen.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"...el término náhuatl amahuitequi (< amatl “papel” + uitequi “batir, golpear”) y su traducción al otomí tipuumahemi (< puumi “golpear, batir” + hemi “papel”)...."
Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna, Lenguas en el México novohispano y decimonónico (2011).

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