coztli.

Headword: 
coztli.
Principal English Translation: 

necklace or collar (see Karttunen); calf of the leg (see attestation from Chimalpahin)

IPAspelling: 
koːstɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CŌZ-TLI pl: -TIN necklace, collar / collar (X) [(3)Xp.35]. This contrasts in vowel length with COZ from COZTIC 'yellow, golden.' See CŌZCA-TL.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynin yn izquintin in yn çatepan quincotzicuillo temazcalco, yn axayacatzin, = Axayacatzin later painted the calves of the legs of all of these in the sweat house; (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 138–139.

themes: 
Anatomy
See also: 
cozcatl.