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namoyalia.

Headword: 
namoyalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to rob something from someone (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
nɑːmoyɑːliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

namoyalia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlanamoyali.) robar a alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĀMOYĀLIĀ vt to rob something from someone / robar algo a alguno (C) [(1)Cf.64r]. applic. NĀMOYĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 159.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment