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zazaliuhyantli.

Headword: 
zazaliuhyantli.
Principal English Translation: 

the joints of the body (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zahzāliuhyāntli, çaçaliuhyantli
IPAspelling: 
sɑhsɑːliwyɑːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

zazaliuhyantli. coyunturas delos miembros del cuerpo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 13v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ZAHZĀLIUHYĀN-TLI the joints of the body / coyonturas de los miembros del cuerpo (M) [(1)Cf.94r, (2)Zp.14,159]. This is the distributive form of ZĀLIUHYĀN-TLI ‘joint.’ redup. ZĀLIUHYĀN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

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