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melaztic.

Headword: 
melaztic.
Principal English Translation: 

something straight and long (see Molina); something straight and vertical (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
melɑstik
Alonso de Molina: 

melaztic. cosa derecha y luenga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MELAZTIC something straight, vertical / derecho (se dice de palo, etc.), vertcal, recto (T) [(2)Tp. 141, 175]. See MELACTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.