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tochomitanatli.

Headword: 
tochomitanatli.
Principal English Translation: 

the basket for rabbit hair

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 208.

IPAspelling: 
toːtʃohmitɑnɑhtɬi
Attestations from sources in English: 

tochomitl = rabbit hair
tochomimalacatl = the spindle whorl for rabbit hair
(central Mexico, sixteenth-century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 208.

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