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cehuallotl.

Headword: 
cehuallotl.
Principal English Translation: 

the shadow or shade made by something (see Molina)

shadow, shade

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
ceuallotl
IPAspelling: 
seːwɑlloːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

ceuallotl. sombra de alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CĒHUALLŌ-TL shadow of something / sombra de alguna cosa (M) [(2)Cf.19r]. See CĒHUAL-LI, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 28.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

cēhuallōtl. cēhualli, shadow, -yōtl.
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.