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huacalli.

Headword: 
huacalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a frame for carrying things on people's backs (see Molina); or a container for carrying maize; also, a personal name, Huacal

Orthographic Variants: 
uacalli, vacalli, Uacal
IPAspelling: 
wɑkɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

uacalli. angarillas para lleuar carga enlas espaldas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents huacalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ahocmo zen vacalli on vacalli nechmomaquilliya zentzintli = ya ni me daba un huacal o dos huacales de mazorca (maíz) (Tlaxcala, 1568)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 105.

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huahcalli.