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huapalzozotlactic.

Headword: 
huapalzozotlactic.
Principal English Translation: 

small wooden beams (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

huapalzozotlactic = small wood beams (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 151.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Wood, wooden material
See also: 
huapalli.
zotlactic.
-tontli.