to clean or remove lice from others (transitive verb); to remove lice from oneself (intransitive verb)
IPAspelling:
ɑtemiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
atemia. nin. (pret. oninatemi.) espulgarse. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 7v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
atemia. nite. (pret. oniteatemi.) espulgar a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 7v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ATEMIĀ vrefl,vt to delouse oneself; to delouse someone / espulgarse (M), espulgar a otro (M) See ATEM(I)-TL. ATEMILIĀ applic. ATEMIĀ ATEMĪLŌ nonact. ATEMIĀ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 12.