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tompiatli.

Headword: 
tompiatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a basket woven from palm leaves

Orthographic Variants: 
tompiatl, topiatl, tompiyatli, tompiyahtli
IPAspelling: 
tompiɑhtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tompiatli. esportilla honda, hecha depalmas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 149r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TOMPIAH-TLI cylindrical or conical container woven of palm and used for transporting goods / esportilla honda, hecha de palmas (M), tompiate (canasta de palma en forma de racimo de uvas) (T) [(2)Tp.241]. Because the sequence is stem-internal, it cannot be determined whether there is a segmental Y between the second and third vowels.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 245.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ihuitl centopiatl = un tompiate de pluma (Amecameca, 1625)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 168–169.

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