Classical Nahuatl

Noun

metlapīlli

1. 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.)

Descendants

• Spanish: metlapil

References

• Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 143