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otlamaxalli.

Headword: 
otlamaxalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a crossroads (this can have a metaphorical meaning)
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), who draws from the Florentine Codex, Book 6, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/otlamaxalli/58576, with the translation here to English by SW.

Orthographic Variants: 
ohtlamaxalli
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents otlamaxalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Transportation, Travel
See also: 
maxalli.
maxalihui.
maxactli.
maxtlatl.