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olmaitl.

Headword: 
olmaitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a rubber hand piece for playing drums, a drumstick
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 134–135.

IPAspelling: 
oːlmɑitɬ
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Zazan tleino, xoncholo, noncholoz: yehoatl in olmaitl. = What is a "you jump and I will jump?" It is a rubber drumstick.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 133–134.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance
Rubber
See also: 
olli.
maitl.