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canactontli.

Headword: 
canactontli.
Principal English Translation: 

something very thin (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kɑnɑktoːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

canactontli. cosa delgadilla assi.
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: 

Amo titilahuac; zan canactotonti = No son gruesas; sólo son delgadillas (sixteenth-century Mexico)
Alfredo López Austin, "De las plantas medicinales y de otras cosas medicinales," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 9 (1971), 125–230, ver el ejemplo en 152–153.