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oxilia.

Headword: 
oxilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to put salve on something, to annoint something, someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ohxiliā
IPAspelling: 
ohʃiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

OHXILIĀ vt to put salve on something, to annoint something, someone / lo unta (Z) [(2)Zp.126,191]. M has oxitl 'salve made of turpentine' and oxiutia 'to anoint something with this salve.' This also appears in P with the glottal stop marked. See OHZA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 178.