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nacazcuicuitlatl.

Headword: 
nacazcuicuitlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

ear wax (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑskwihkwitɬɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

nacazcuicuitlatl. cera delos oydos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NACAZCUIHCUITL(A)-TL earwax / cera de los oídos (M) [(1)Zp.175]. The single attestation in Z has CHI for the third syllable instead of CUIH. See NACAZTECUIHCUITL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 156.