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nezoliztli.

Headword: 
nezoliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the drawing of blood (a ceremony)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 73, 198.

Orthographic Variants: 
neçoliztli
IPAspelling: 
nesolistɬi
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nezoliztli = sangrado; nezolizpan = en el tiempo del sangrado
Thelma Sullivan, Compendio de la gramática náhuatl, 4a. edición (México: UNAM, 1998), 139.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)