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aatemi.

Headword: 
aatemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to be watery, wet; to fill up with water, to flood (see Karttunen)

Alonso de Molina: 

aatemi. n. (pret. onaaten.) estar abuhado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 1r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

to fill up with water, to flood / ser hidrópico (M for atemi), se inunda
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 4.

IDIEZ morfema: 
āātēmi.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to become satiated with water, after all
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
ni. Macehualli zo tecuani eli aaixhui. “Pablo aatemi quemman atli ihcatzan teipan axhueli tequiti chicahuac huan mocauhtiuh quemman tlamehua”.
IDIEZ morfología: 
ātēmi (tlaomp.)
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach1.
themes: 
Water