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molonqui.

Headword: 
molonqui.
Principal English Translation: 

something ground up well and dry (see Molina); powdered; pulverized; perhaps it also have extended to being soft and fluffy; this was also the name of a deity or divine force, Molonqui

IPAspelling: 
moloːnki
Alonso de Molina: 

molonqui. cosa mollida assi, o cosa muy molida y seca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)