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camachaloa.

Headword: 
camachaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to open one's mouth wide (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑmɑtʃɑloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

camachaloa. ni. (pret. onicamachalo.) abrir mucho la boca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAMACHALOĀ to open the mouth wide / abrir mucho la boca (M) [(2)Zp.20,154,(3)Xp33]. Both Z and X give this with a long vowel in CHAL, but in the abundant attestations of CAMACHAL-LI elsewhere, the vowel is short. See CAMACHAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 23.

IDIEZ morfema: 
camachāloā.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to open one’s mouth.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
ni. Macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli quitlapoa icamac. “Ne conetzin tlahuel camachaloa quemman tzahtzi. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
A. ni. una persona o fiera abre su boca. “Ese bebé mucho abre su boca cuando llora”.
IDIEZ morfología: 
camachālli, oā1.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach3.
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