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amachiltia.

Headword: 
amachiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to over-water, over-irrigate something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āmachīltiā
IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑtʃiːltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMACHĪLTIĀ vt to over-water, over-irrigate something / lo riega demasiado le dilata el riego (T)[(1)Tp.117]. See Ā-TL, MACHĪLTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.

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