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amanalli.

Headword: 
amanalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a pool or tank of water (see Molina), a lake (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑnɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

amanalli. alberca o estanque de agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMANAL-LI pool of water, lake / alberca o estanque de agua (M)[(1)Tp.170]. This also appears in R but with the initial vowel unmarked for length. X has ĀMAN-TLI. See ĀMAN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 10.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
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