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momoztlae.

Headword: 
momoztlae.
Principal English Translation: 

every day, daily

Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 189.

Orthographic Variants: 
mumuztlae, mōmōztlaeh
IPAspelling: 
moːmoːstɬɑeh
Alonso de Molina: 

momoztlae. cada dia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 059r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MŌMŌZTLAEH every day / cada día (M) T omits the final –EH; Z has it unreduplicated as MŌZTLAH. See MŌZTLA.

MŌZTLAH See MŌMŌZTLAEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 152.

Andrés de Olmos: 

cada dia
Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 189.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

momoztlae = every day; particle. from mōztla.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 225.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency