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xamixcalli.

Headword: 
xamixcalli.
Principal English Translation: 

brick(s) of baked clay (adobe?) (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ʃɑmiʃkɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

xamixcalli. ladrillo de barro cozido.
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: 

xamixcalli yn iyaztocallo = la portada tiene de ladrillo (Ciudad de México, 1566)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 183.

themes: 
Ceramics, Pottery
See also: 
xamitl.
xantli.