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meyalli.

Headword: 
meyalli.
Principal English Translation: 

spring, fountain, place where something comes gushing forth (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mēyalli
IPAspelling: 
meːyɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

MĒYAL-LI spring, fountain, place where something comes gushing forth / manantial (T) [(2)Tp. 170]. This is only attested as ĀMĒYAL-LI ‘water spring, water fountain.’ See MĒY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 145.