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icxichacayolihui.

Headword: 
icxichacayolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for women to have calluses on their feet from being on their knees for long stretches while grinding at the metate (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
icxichacayoliui
IPAspelling: 
ikʃitʃɑkɑjoːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

icxichacayoliui. n. (pret. onicxichacayoliuh.) tener las mugeres callos enlos pies, de mucho moler en metlatl sobre ellos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 34r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
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