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totolacatl.

Headword: 
totolacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a reed or quill (for writing)

IPAspelling: 
toːtolɑːkɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

totolacatl. cañon o pluma para escreuir.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huel imatica onechmacac [yca totolacatl oquitenamic oquimachiuhtili ce cruz] = con su mano me dio la pluma y la besó, haciendo la señal de la cruz (Amecameca, 1625)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 170–171.

themes: 
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