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calmamali.

Headword: 
calmamali.
Principal English Translation: 

to light a fire and inaugurate a new building

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, (Wimmer 2004, citing Sahagún), https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/calmamali/42233

Attestations from sources in English: 

calmamalihua = to consecrate
Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart, ca. late 1970s and early 1980s.