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campana yollotli.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
campana yollotli.
Principal English Translation: 

literally, the heart of the bell, but it refers to the bell clapper (see Molina) (partially a loanword from Spanish)

Alonso de Molina: 

campana yollotli. badajo de campana. 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.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhua oticpopoloque ye otiCouhque Canpana ynyolo ChiCeui peSo, 8 pos = Y gastamos algo para comprar un badajo de campana por ocho pesos. (San Andrés Chiautla, 1638)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 178–179

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