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nalpanohua.

Headword: 
nalpanohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to cross to the other side (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nālpanohua
IPAspelling: 
nɑːlpɑnowɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀLPANOHUA to cross to the other side / lo cruza ... lo atraviesa (Z) [(3)Zp.16,36,176]. See NĀL-, PANŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 158.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nal. y Nalco. no se halla sino con este nombre, atl. analco. aunque si, en composicion. v.g. nalquiça. naltona. Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocabulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones que en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 11r.