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nacatamalli.

Headword: 
nacatamalli.
IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑtɑmɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

nacatamalli. empanada decarne o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NACATAMAL-LI meat tamale / empanada de carne o cosa semejante (M) [(1)Tp.223, (3)Zp.119,176,210]. See NAC(A)-TL, TAMAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 155.