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xotl.

Headword: 
xotl.
Principal English Translation: 

the color, green; a sprout or a shoot on a plant; also, foot
Thomas S. Denison, Mexican Linguistics, including an introduction by H. W. Magoun (1913), 8.

IPAspelling: 
ʃotɬ
Attestations from sources in English: 

xoxopan in ompa temo yan ipalnemohua = From Green Places he descends (ca. 1582, central Mexico)
John Bierhorst, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, UTDigital, 2009), f. 1r.; http://utdi.org/book/index.php?page=songs.php

in veliaque, in vel xopaleoac = quite pointed, quite green (late sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 43.

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