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ololhuia.

Headword: 
ololhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to gather around something

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), 228.

IPAspelling: 
ololwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

OLOLHUIĀ applic. OLOLOĀ. OLOLOĀ vt to roll something into a ball; to collect something / hacer alguna cosa redonda como bola, o cosa semejante esférica, o arrebañar y ayuntar algo (M) The vowel of the second syllable is consistently short in T but long in 4 of 6 attestations in Z.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 178.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tic. Class 3: ōticololhuihqueh. applicative of ololoa. 228

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