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oilia.

Headword: 
oilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to shell something for someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ōiliā
IPAspelling: 
oːiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ŌILIĀ vt to shell something for someone / desgranarle algo (K) [(2)cf.64r,(1)Tp.233]. T has a medial glide w between the first two vowels, which conclusively demonstrates that the Y of the stem is dropped in this form. applic. ŌY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 178.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking