malacachtic.

Headword: 
malacachtic.
Principal English Translation: 

somethig round, circular (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
malacachtic
IPAspelling: 
mɑlɑkɑtʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

MALACACHTIC somethig round, circular /redondo, circular (S) [(2)Tp.136,140, (I)Zp. 165]. See MALACACHOĀ .
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 134.

Attestations from sources in English: 

malacachtic = like a spindle whorl (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), 109.

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