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macpalixtli.

Headword: 
macpalixtli.
Principal English Translation: 

the palm of the hand (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

macpalixtli = surface of the palm of the hand
nacaio = fleshy
nacatilaoac = thick-fleshed
tlatlatziniloni = clapping instrument
tlatziniloni = clapper
tlamatema = one fills the hand (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 116.

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