tlatzacualoni.

Headword:

tlatzacualoni.

Principal English Translation:

lock, latch (closer)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

Orthographic Variants:

tlatzaqualoni

Alonso de Molina:

tlatzaqualoni. cerradura o cosa semejante para cerrar o atapar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

instrumental noun from tzaqua.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

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