ololtic.

Headword: 
ololtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something round, such as a bullet or a ball (see Molina); something ball-shaped, spherical (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
olōltic
IPAspelling: 
ololtik
Alonso de Molina: 

ololtic. cosa redonda como bola, o pelota.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 76r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

OLOLTIC something ball-shaped, spherical / bola (Z) [(2)Zp.20,221]. The single attestation has both the second and third vowels long. See the note about attested vowel length in OLOLOĀ. A long vowel in -TIC is idiosyncratic to Z. See OLOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 178.

Attestations from sources in English: 

no tlacpac, ololtontli in tepetl: no vican icac otonteucalli = Also there was a rounded hill above, and an Otomi temple stood there.
(Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 172.

ololtic = round (an adjective form) (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 106.

Ololtontli is the diminutive of ololtic. Olōltiqueh is the plural.

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