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toltecayotl.

Headword: 
toltecayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

artisanry; can also mean anything in Tula style or the entity of Tula

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

Orthographic Variants: 
tultecayotl
IPAspelling: 
toːlteːkɑːjoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

toltecayotl. maestria de arte mecanica.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tōltēcatl, -yōtl.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

Attestations from sources in English: 

occen tlamantli tultecayotl = and other arts (16th-c., central Mexico)
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 98–99.