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ɑlɑːwɑ

to slip (see Molina and Karttunen); see also our entry for alāhua, the contemporary Eastern Huastecan term

1. for spoiling food to ferment. 2. for tortillas get sticky when they are put away for a time.
A. 1. La comida tiene espuma encima porque esta echado a perder. “Mi mamá su mole ayer no lo calentó porque se dormió y ahora se echo a perder”. 2. Tortilla pegajosa porque ya tiene muchos días. “La tortilla de Sandra ya no sirve porque hace mucho calor”.
ɑlɑːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
alāhuac

something slippery, crumbly (see Karttunen); phlegm (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 138.

Orthographic Variants: 
alauac, alauaca

slippery (see Molina)

mat made from sedge (see Molina)

a type of tree; itʻs bark is used for making rope.
for food to ferment when it begins to spoil.
A. La comida le empieza a salir espuma porque se esta echando a perder. “La tortilla de Sandra se echa a perder porque hizo muchas .”
Orthographic Variants: 
lámbra, alampreh

wire, iron, metal (see attestations); see also our entries for alāmpreh and alāmprepanō (from contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, IDIEZ records)

to help someone over a fence

to pass through a wire fence
1. to pass s.o. or an animal through a wire fence. 2. to pass s.t. through a wire fence.
to create a smooth surface on earth, planks, walls or rock constructions.
# Nic. Una persona empareja la tierra, tabla y barda, su forma. “Alberto cuando hace mesas, las alisa muy bien”.
to slide
A. se pone liso. “yo no puedo caminar con mis zapatos cuando esta mojado porque nomas se resbala”.
ɑlɑʃoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
alaxoā

to polish something (see Karttunen); see also our entry, alaxoā, from contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl (IDIEZ), which has the added meaning of to caress someone

1. to polish s.t. 2. to caress s.o.
fruit of the orange tree.
orange flavored corn gruel.