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payanilia.

Headword: 
payanilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to grind something for someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
payāniliā
IPAspelling: 
pɑyɑːniliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PAYĀNILIĀ vrefl, vt to grind something for someone / se lo muele (T), se lo muele (el nixtamal a otra persona) (T) [(7)Tp.155,196]. applic. PAYĀN(A).

PAYĀNILILIĀ applic. PAYĀNILlĀ.

PAYĀNILĪLŌ nonact. PAYĀNILlĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 190.