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paloa.

Headword: 
paloa.
IPAspelling: 
pɑloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

paloa. nitla. (pret. onitlapalo.) gustar algun manjar, o mojar el pan en algun potaje, o salsa.
71m2-79r. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PALOĀ vt to sip, taste something; to sop bread in soup or gravy / gustar algún manjar o mojar el pan en algún potaje o salsa (M), probar alguna bebida o manjar (C), lo sopea (T) The reduplicated form of this, PAHPALOĀ, has among its senses 'to lick something.'

PALHUIĀ applic. PALOĀ.

PALŌLŌ nonact. PALOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 186.