place where things fit properly, joint (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
zāliuhyāntli, çaliuhyantli
IPAspelling:
sɑːliwyɑːntɬi
Alonso de Molina:
zaliuhyantli. coyunturas delos miembros del cuerpo Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 14r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ZĀLIUHYĀN-TLI place where things fit properly, joint / coyonturas de los miebros del cuerpo (M), en su lugar y en caja (C) [(1)Cf.94r, (2)Zp.14,159]. Z has the variant form ZĀLIHUIYĀN. See ZĀLIHU(I), -YĀN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.