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temoa.

Headword: 
temoa.
Principal English Translation: 

all descend, all go down (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

temoa. (pret. otemoac.) todos descienden, o abaxan.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 97v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents temoa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh oc hue yohualnepantla in apan temoya. = Y precisamente a la medianoche bajaba al agua (en el agua). (An. Cuauh., f. 4)
Thelma Sullivan, Compendio de la gramática náhuatl, 4a. edición (México: UNAM, 1998), 140.