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macehuallotl.

Headword: 
macehuallotl.
Principal English Translation: 

commonness, vulgarity
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 223.

Orthographic Variants: 
maceuallotl
IPAspelling: 
mɑːseːwɑlloːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

maceuallotl. vasallaje, o cosa de maceuales.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

mācēhualli, -yōtl. 223

Attestations from sources in English: 

macehuallotl (noun) = servitude, slavery
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 156.

themes: 
Slavery
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites