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Itzmalli.

Headword: 
Itzmalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Yzmally
Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca yzmally = named Itzmalli (also called Juan) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 152–153.

Itzmalli = "obsidian prisoner" (a name)
Magnus Pharao Hansen, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos," a blog posting from 2014. http://nahuatlstudies.blogspot.com/2014/11/nahuatl-names-nahuatl-names-i...