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mecayotl.

Headword: 
mecayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

ancestry or blood kinship (see Molina); lineage (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
mekɑyoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

mecayotl. abolorio, o parentesco de consanguinidad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MECAYŌ-TL lineage / abolorio o parentesco de consaguinidad (M) This is indirectly attested in MECA-TL. See MECA-TL, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 142.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Lineage relates to the word line or cord (mecatl), connecting people.