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tlaxotlalli.

Headword: 
tlaxotlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

something sawed, or a line, or something with lines; can refer to sheet music (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃotɬɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaxotlalli. cosa aserrada o hendida, o raya, o cosa rayada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 146v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

machuili tlaxotlali = cinco lineas (seventeenth-century Guatemala)
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 96–97.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance