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huitzmallotl.

Headword: 
huitzmallotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a needle for sewing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uitzmallotl
IPAspelling: 
wiːtsmɑlloːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

uitzmallotl. aguja para coser.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

icuitlaxcol quiuilana, tepetozcatl quitoca...tla ca nenca uitzmallotl. = drags its intestines as it ambles along the foot-hills of the mountain?...it is a sewing needle.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 130–131.

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