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Headword:

xelhuaztli.

Principal English Translation:

a small brush for untangling hair (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

xelhuāztli

IPAspelling:

ʃelwɑːstɬi

Frances Karttunen:

XELHUĀZ-TLI pl: -TIN ~ -MEH small brush / cepillo, escobeta (para desenredarse el cabello) (T) Z has XIL for XEL, and X has XĀL, The vowel of instrumental -(HU)ĀZ-TLI is long, as Z and X have it, but T has it short in this item. See XELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 322.

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