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tlaltamachihualoni.

Headword: 
tlaltamachihualoni.
Principal English Translation: 

measuring device for measuring land (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaltamachiualoni
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltɑmɑtʃiːwɑloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaltamachiualoni. medida para medir tierra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlaltamachihualoni = un instrumento para medir tierra
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 195–223, ver página 223.

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