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poyelia.

Headword: 
poyelia.
IPAspelling: 
poyeliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

poyelia. nitla. (pret. onitlapoyeli.) echar sal enlo que se guisa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

POYELIĀ vrefl,vt to get salty; to add salt to something / se pone salado (T), le echa sal (T) [(4)Tp.156,198]. See POYEC.

POYELILIĀ applic. POYELIĀ.

POYELĪLŌ nonact. POYELIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.