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mamelahua.

Headword: 
mamelahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to extend one’s hand extiende (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māmelāhua
IPAspelling: 
mɑːmelɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀMELĀHU(A) vrefl to extend one’s hand extiende la mano (Z) [(2)Zp.58,170]. See MĀ(I)-TL, MELĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 135.