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mazaehuatl.

Headword: 
mazaehuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

animal skin (see Molina); the root would appear to intend deer skin or deer hide (SW)

Orthographic Variants: 
mazaeuatl
IPAspelling: 
mɑsɑːeːwɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

mazaeuatl. piel de animal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

TLALTECATZIN icozoyahualol itlahuitol imazayehuatilma icuauhxiuhicpal = TLALTECATZIN su escarapela amarilla, su arco, su manta de piel de venado, su asiento de ramas (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 206—207.