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tlatzetzeloloni.

Headword: 
tlatzetzeloloni.
Principal English Translation: 

a sieve (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsehtseloːloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzetzeloloni. cedazo, harnero o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlatzetzeloloni in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

"navi tlaceceloloni textli" = "four flour separators"
Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 120, 154.

See the glyph for what looks like a flour sifter.
Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 206.

See also: 
tlatzetzeloni.