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-mopiloayan.

Headword: 
-mopiloayan.
Principal English Translation: 

place where something hangs, gathers, or looms (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-mopiloāyān
IPAspelling: 
-mopiloɑːyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-MOPILOĀYĀN necessarily possessed form place where something hangs, gathers, or looms / lugar donde se arman los aguaceros (C referring in context to rain) [(1)Cf.50v]. See PILOĀ, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.