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tlaoyalli.

Headword: 
tlaoyalli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑoːyɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaoyalli. mayz desgranado, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAŌYAL-LI dried kernels of maize removed from the cob / maíz desgranada o cosa semejante (M) [(1)Cf.46v, (1)Rp.40]. C and R fail to mark the long O long. See TLAŌY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.