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ecacaztli.

Headword: 
ecacaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a ladder

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 135–136.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See also ecahuaztli.

Zazan tleino, tetlapantenco moquequetza quateconpol. Ecacaztli. = What is it that knocks its big head against the edge of the roof? A ladder.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 133–134.

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