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pinotl.

Headword: 
pinotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a barbarian who speaks another language (see Molina; Engl. transl. here by SW)

Alonso de Molina: 

Barbaro de lengua estraña. popoloca, pinotl.
Alonso de Molina Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 18v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents pinotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).