hueliliya. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

hueliliya.

Principal English Translation:

for food to taste good (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

huēliliya

IPAspelling:

weːliliyɑ

Frances Karttunen:

HUĒLILIYA for food to taste good / está sabroso (X) [(3)Xp.100]. M has transitive uelilia ‘to make food taste good,’ which forms its preterit as a regular -IĀ verb, while this intransitive verb adds -C in the preterit. See HUĒLIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 86.

themes:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)