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amazolli.

Headword: 
amazolli.
Principal English Translation: 

an old piece of paper, letter, document, book (see Molina); old tattered book (Carochi/Lockhart)

Orthographic Variants: 
amaçolli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑsolli
Alonso de Molina: 

amazolli. papel viejo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

āmaçolli = old tattered book
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001),43.

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Aging (People, Things)
Legal Matters, Documents
Paper
Writing, Literacy