malinalli

Central Nahuatl

malinalli

The glyph corresponding to the day ōme malīnalli (“two twisted straw”), as depicted in the codex Magliabechiano.

From malīna (“to twist”) +‎ -lli.

malīnalli (inanimate)

(it is) a twisted or braided grass stalk used as a building material
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 187r:
  Paja para hazer caſas. ocoçacatl.malinalli.çacacueitl.
  Straw used to build houses. ocoçacatl. malinalli. çacacueitl.
(it is) the twelfth of the twenty day signs of the tōnalpōhualli; a bundle of grass growing from a human jaw
- 16th c., Codex Magliabechiano, f. 12v.
  Vme maljnalj / q quiere dezir dos / yeruas deſte / nonbre por q tor / çer quiere dezir / maljnale
  Vme maljnalj. which means “two weeds of this name”, because maljnale is also to say “to twist”.

Rémi Siméon (1885) Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, page 251
Krystyna M. Libura (2002) Los días y dioses del Códice Borgia, Ediciones Tecolote, page 13

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