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hualtemo.

Headword: 
hualtemo.
Principal English Translation: 

to go down or descend from on high (see Molina); to come down (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ualtemo
IPAspelling: 
wɑːltemoː
Alonso de Molina: 

ualtemo. ni. (pret. oniualtemoc.) abaxar o descendir de alto.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀLTEMŌ to come down, to descend / abajar o descender de alto (M) This is implied by HUĀLTEMŌLIZ-TLI See HUĀL-, TEMŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 81.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Neman ualtemuz = minam hualtemoz = Luego vendrá a caer (Guatemala, 1637, documento en pipil)
Miguel León-Portilla, "Un Texto en Nahua Pipil de Guatemala, Siglo XVII," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 35–47, y ver 44–45.