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manahualli.

Headword: 
manahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

coverlet for a cradle, protection (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mānāhualli
IPAspelling: 
mɑːnɑːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀNĀHUAL-LI coverlet for a cradle, protection / manta de cuna de niño (M) [(1)Bf. 7r]. This appears in M and B in possessed form. S provides the absolutive suffix.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 135.