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xomatli.

Headword: 
xomatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a clay spoon (see Molina); Xoma was also seen as a personal name

Orthographic Variants: 
xumatli, xumalli, xomalli
IPAspelling: 
ʃomɑhtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

xomatli. cuchara de barro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

cenxumatli, cencuauhxumatli [cenquauhxumatli]= cucharadas; la segunda sería de madera y no de barro
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 195–223, ver la página 205.

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