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matexoani.

Headword: 
matexoani.
Principal English Translation: 

a millstone for grinding (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

matexoani. muela para moler.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

matexoani (instr.) = rueda de molina, muela para moler (r. maitl. teci.)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 257.

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