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netlayecoltiliztli.

Headword: 
netlayecoltiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the method or means of finding and storing what is necessary for life (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
netɬɑjekoːltiːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

netlayecoltiliztli. modo, o manera de buscar y grangear lo necessario ala vida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 70r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

anozo itla netlayecoltiliztli in iuhqui tepuzpitzcayotl = or such crafts as forging metal (16th c., central Mexico)
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 106–107.

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