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nextlahualiztli.

Headword: 
nextlahualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

payment [to the gods] (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 74.

Orthographic Variants: 
nextlaualiztli
IPAspelling: 
neʃtɬɑːwɑlistɬi
Attestations from sources in English: 

monextlahual = your offering (also: mohuen)
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 251.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)