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hualtemoliztli.

Headword: 
hualtemoliztli.
Orthographic Variants: 
ualtemoliztli
IPAspelling: 
wɑːltemoːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

ualtemoliztli. descendimiento assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀLTEMŌLIZ-TLI descent; something lowered / descendimiento así (M), bajado (Z) [(2)Zp.18,154]. This implies the verb HUĀLTEMŌ. See HUĀLTEMŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 81.