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anahuatl.

Headword: 
anahuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

round disc worn as a pendant or pectoral
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 177.

IPAspelling: 
ɑːnɑːwɑtɬ
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"El disco perforado" = "...era un distintivo común a varios dioses. Era un pectoral de concha en forma de disco con una perforación circular en el centro, atado del cuello por cintas de cuero rojo, terminadas en el corte llamado antiguamente maxaliuhqui, y en la actualidad 'cola de golondrina.'"
Alfredo López Austin y Leonardo López Luján, Monte Sagrado--Templo Mayor (México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia y Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad National Autónoma de México, 2009), 498.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments