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tlaxintli.
Headword:
tlaxintli.
Principal English Translation:
wood or stone that has been worked; or, a person whose hair has been cut or who has been shaved (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tlaxixintli
IPAspelling:
tɬɑʃiːntɬi
Attestations from sources in English:
ynjn coatlapechtli, quaujtl in tlaxixintli, iuhqujn cocoa, naujntin in motzinnamjctoque: nauhcampa caca yn jntzontecon: … mjchioauhtzoalli, ynjc qujpepechoaia, yn jmizqujo, ca mizqujquaujtl, in tlaxintli, yn ixiptla muchipa catca, yn oqujpepechoque = This serpent bench was hewn of wood, to represent serpents; four sides carried the tails; four sides carried their heads… They covered [Uitzilopochtli’s] mesquite wood framework with fish amaranth dough; for his figure was always hewn of mesquite wood, which they covered. (sixteenth century, Mexico City)