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# nic. Una persona le ayuda un poco el trabajo de otro que le toca porque no lo puede hacer solo y lo quiere terminar. “Silbino le ayuda a su papá a tumbar árboles porque tiene poco que ha llovido y quiere sembrar maíz”.

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palehuiloni.

pɑleːwiːloːni

Orthographic Variants:

paleuiloni

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palhuiliā.

to dip one’s tortilla en s.o. else’s food.

# nic. Una persona mete o lo remoja su tortilla en la comida de otro. “El hermano de Carmen moja su tortilla en la comida de Diana porque él tenia mucha y todavía no lo habían servido”.

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palia.

to dye; this verb seems to relate to a black clay that is used as a dye (see palli)

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer 2004, and pointing to Andrews, Campbell and Karttunen, and Siméon, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/palia/59290

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palio.

pallium, a pontifical ornament, worn by patriarchs and archbishops; a cloak, short mantle; a canopy; a premium or a plate given as a reward in horse racing; seemingly also the horse racing or horse spectacle itself
(a loanword from Spanish)

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palli.

pɑlli

black clay used in dying cloth (see Karttunen); also, the color black (see Gordon Whittaker, Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 189)

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palosdahuia.

to give someone a beating

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 229.

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