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-palehuiloca.

Headword: 
-palehuiloca.
Principal English Translation: 

someone's help, aid, the help given to someone

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), 229.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

passive abstract deverbal noun from palēhuia. 229

Attestations from sources in English: 

ixquich monequi ypalehuiloca naniman = all that is needed for the aid of my soul (Coyoacan, 1622)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 4, 68–69.