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xillan.

Headword: 
xillan.
Principal English Translation: 

inside the abdomen, belly, intestines (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ʃillɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

xillan. enla barriga, o vientre
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

inxillanneapitzaliz = su diarrea (centro de México, s. XVIII)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, ver página 282.

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