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tlaoxtli.

Headword: 
tlaoxtli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑoːʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaoxtli. mayz desgranado, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAŌX-TLI kernels of maize removed from the cob / maíz desgranado o cosa semejante (M) [(1)Cf.46v, (1)Rp.40]. O is not marked long in C or R, but R drives this directly from ŌY(A) ‘to shell something’ where the vowel is attested long. See ŌY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

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