metlapilli
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Central Nahuatl[edit]
Noun[edit]
metlapilli
Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From metlatl (“metate”) + pīlli (“son”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
metlapīlli
- A cylindrical, hand-held grinding stone used together with the metate.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 55v. col. 1:
- Metlapilli. moledor con que muelen el mayz.
(Metlapilli. grinder with which they grind maize.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: metlapil
References[edit]
- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 143