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naltoctic.

Headword: 
naltoctic.
Principal English Translation: 

something transparent (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāltoctic
IPAspelling: 
nɑːltoktik
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀLTOCTIC something transparent / transparente (Z) [(2)Zp.125,176]. M has naltonac with the same sense. See NĀLTŌNA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 158.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nal. y Nalco. no se halla sino con este nombre, atl. analco. aunque si, en composicion. v.g. nalquiça. naltona. Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocabulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones que en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 11r.

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