colotli.

Headword: 
colotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a frame, structure, or platform; or, a conical hat worn by a delinquent (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kolohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

colotli. armadura de manga de cruz, o de andas &c. o coroza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh in tlamamalli xoxouhquj veuetl in colotli tlachiuhtli coztic teucujtlaio = And as a burden for his back [he had] a blue skin drum fashioned on a frame, and [ornamented] with gold. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 33.

veuetl in colotli tlachiuhtli, coztic teucujtlaio: = the skin drum upon a carrying frame, and decorated with gold. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 33.

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