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quilmach.

Headword: 
quilmach.
IPAspelling: 
kilmɑtʃ
Alonso de Molina: 

quilmach. dizen que, o dizque.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUILMACH it is said that / dicen que, o dizque (M) [(5)Cf.122r,123r,131v]. In one of five attestations the vowel of QUIL is marked long; elsewhere it is short. See QUIL, MACH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 211.