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xaxaltic.

Headword: 
xaxaltic.
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑʃɑltik
Alonso de Molina: 

xaxaltic. cosa ralla, assi como manta, estera o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XAXALTIC something loosely or thinly interwoven, as in open-textured weaving / cosa rala, así como manta, estera, o cosa semejante (M), tejido abierto (de tela, ayate, etc.) (T).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 322.