apazyahualli.

Headword: 
apazyahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a large pottery vessel or container (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
apazyaualli
Alonso de Molina: 

apazyaualli. lebrillo grande de barro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 6v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This entered Spanish as apaxtle.
Francisco González Rul, La cerámica en Tlatelolco (1988), 66 and lám. 15.

This vessel was used at times as a funerary container.
Beatriz Leonor Merino Carrión, La producción alfarera en el México antiguo, vol. V (2007), 266.

themes: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Death