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ehuayotl.

Headword: 
ehuayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a hide; or, a rind or the skin of a fruit (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
euayotl, ehuayo, iehuayo
IPAspelling: 
eːwɑyoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

euayotl. pellejo, y caxcara, o mondadura de fruta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĒHUAYŌ-TL skin, leather, husk, rind / pellejo y cáscara, o mondadura de fruta (M) [(3)Tp.138,249,(2)Zp.98,158]. See ĒHUA-TL, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 76.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.