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xallo.

Headword: 
xallo.
Principal English Translation: 

sandy, something full of sand (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xalo
Alonso de Molina: 

xallo. cosa llena de arena.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xalo = arenoso
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xli.