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tlachichihualoni.

Headword: 
tlachichihualoni.
Principal English Translation: 

any type of instrument

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachichiualoni
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃihtʃiːwɑloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlachichiualoni. instrumento de qualesquier oficiales mecanicos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 117r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlachichiualoni = un instrumento cualquiera, de chichiua, hacer, arreglar, etc.
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.