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chapilli.

Headword: 
chapilli.
Principal English Translation: 

a square-shaped frame made of sticks and lined inside; this is used to store grains
Gregorio Bautista Lara, Etimologías de la lengua náhuatl (1989), 47.

Orthographic Variants: 
chapil
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Agustin Tenchapil = nombre de una persona indígena en Tlaxcala, 1567
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 218; y Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas Del Siglo XVI en Lengua Náhuatl (1987), 256.

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