nextamalli.

Headword: 
nextamalli.
Principal English Translation: 

maize soaked in ash water and then ground for making tortillas, tamales, and other cornmeal-based dishes (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
neʃtɑmɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

NEXTAMAL-LI maize soaked in lime water and then ground for making tortillas, tamales, and other cornmeal-based dishes / nixtamal (T,Z) [(1)Tp.167,(2)Zp.88,178,(2)Xp.57] . See NEX-TLI, TAMAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.

Attestations from sources in English: 

From this term would come the name in Spanish for maize-grinding mills, molinos de nixtamal. (SW)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…ynic techixatequiya yn innextamalayouh yn iciuauan yn tometzpan yn ya tocuitlapan ya momamaxotla auh yn in ac teuan yn iuh technemitiya cuix titzcuintin = …sus mujeres nos echan el agua de nixtamal a la cara; en nuestras piernas y espaldas rayan con canutos de pluma y esto decimos, quiénes somos que así nos hacen vivir? Acaso somos perros?
(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 147, 155.