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xolo.

Headword: 
xolo.
Principal English Translation: 

a page, a waiter, a servant, or an enslaved human being (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ʃoːlo
Alonso de Molina: 

xolo. paje, mozo, criado o esclauo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

xolotl. busca xolo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents xolo in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Molina cautions us to look at xolo when we expect to seek and find xolotl.

Also, a synonym of tepolli, the virile member (i.e., penis) ("synonyme de tepôlli, membre viril.")
A. Wimmer, 2004, quoted in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xolo/76943

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