vessel for soaking maize in lime water (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nexcōmitl
IPAspelling:
neʃkoːmitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
NEXCŌM(I)-TL vessel for soaking maize in lime water / olla para poner nixtamal (T) [(1)Tp.178] . Z has a gloss that seems to refer to the process of preparing nixtamal rather than to the container which is its literal referent. See NEX-TLI, CŌM(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.