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molictli.

Headword: 
molictli.
IPAspelling: 
moliktɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

molictli. codo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOLIC-TLI elbow / codo (M), su codo (parte del cuerpo) (Z), codo (medida) (Z) [(1)Bf.10r, (4)Zp.29,160,2O2]. Z has a long vowel in the first syllable, but B specifically marks it short, and it is also short in MOLICPI-TL. Z has extended this to mean a unit of length measurement on the model of Spanish codo.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.