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tlamecayotl.

Headword: 
tlamecayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

braid(s) (see Molina); cord(s) (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamecayutl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmekɑjoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamecayotl. trenza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 126v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Tlamecayutl = cords (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 117.