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yecamecayo cahuallo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
yecamecayo cahuallo.
Principal English Translation: 

a horse muzzle or chin strap (see Molina)
(partly a Spanish loanword, caballo, horse)

Orthographic Variants: 
yecamecayo cauallo
Alonso de Molina: 

yecamecayo cauallo. barboquejo o bozal de cauallo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 34v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.