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amamalacacho.

Headword: 
amamalacacho.
Principal English Translation: 

a water-whirler
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997, 211.

Attestations from sources in English: 

xicali pechtic quimecayotia vncan quiteca in atl quitemitia nima ie quimamalacachoa = he tied cords to a broad vessels; he poured water into it, he filled it. Then he whirled it around. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 214.

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