the pay for one day of work, the daily wage (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
cemilhuitl tlaxtlauilli
Alonso de Molina:
cemilhuitl tlaxtlauilli. jornal, o paga de vn dia. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 16r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.