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cuauhmaxalli.

Headword: 
cuauhmaxalli.
Principal English Translation: 

forked stick (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhmaxalli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwmɑʃɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHMAXAL-LI pl: -TIN forked stick / horqueta, horcón (Z) [(2)Zp.69,148,(3)Xp.34]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, MAXAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.