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tlaahuitectli.

Headword: 
tlaahuitectli.
Principal English Translation: 

white wash

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 110.

something whitewashed

Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 114v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaauitectli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑɑːwiːtektɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaauitectli. cosa enxaluegada assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 114v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlaauitectli in ichimal = her shield is whitewashed
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 110.