griddle, a round disk over a fire for cooking tortillas
"in their hands they form thin, medium-sized round tortillas, which they cook straight away in a comalli over hot coals. This is the most common method of preparing bread from corn." (Central Mexico, 1571–1615)
comalchiuhqui in itequiuh ome tomi = The griddle makers' tax is 2 tomines (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth cent.)
Zan ticualiga itlah cómalti, itlah xoctzintzi, itla áhpazti, o xoctzitzitzinti. = We just bring things like comals, pots, bowls or small pots.
Zan ticualiga itlah cómalti, itlah xoctzintzi, itla áhpazti, o xoctzitzitzinti. = Solamente llevamos tal vez comales, tal vez ollas, tal vez jícaras, u ollitas.