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texcalla.

Headword: 
texcalla.
Principal English Translation: 

rocky, craggy place
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.

Alonso de Molina: 

texcalla. despeñadero, o lugar riscoso y lleno de peñascos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

complex relational word. texcalli rock outcropping or crag, -tlah. 235

themes: 
Stones, Masonry