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camotic.

Headword: 
camotic.
Principal English Translation: 

something soft, easy to spread (see Lockhart); something tender and bland (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kɑmohtik
Alonso de Molina: 

camotic. cosa tierna, o blanda como batatas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

camohtli, -tic.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Also attested for the color "purple" in modern Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl.
See the IDIEZ instructional video in modern Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl / Ver el video hecho por IDIEZ para la instrucción el en Náhuatl de la Huasteca del Este: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQvfo_LLiT4&feature=youtu.be

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