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emolli.

Headword: 
emolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a bean or lima bean stew (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
emulli
IPAspelling: 
emoːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

emulli. guisado de frisoles, o de hauas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

EMŌL-LI bean porridge / guisado de frijoles, o de habas (M) [(1)Tp.249,(1)153]. See E-TL, MŌL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.

Attestations from sources in English: 

From etl (beans) and molli (sauce, stew).

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking