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xancotoctli.

Headword: 
xancotoctli.
Principal English Translation: 

a piece of adobe (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xāncotoctli
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑːnkotoktɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

XĀNCOTOC-TLI pl: -MEH piece of adobe / pedazo de adobe o de tabique (T) [(1)Tp.247]. See XĀM(I)-TL, COTOC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 322.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Technology, Tools
See also: 
xamitl.
xantli.