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tempapaloa.

Headword: 
tempapaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to lick one's lips; to lick someone's lips (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tempahpaloā
IPAspelling: 
tempɑhpɑloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TEMPAHPALOĀ vrefl.vt to lick one's lips; to lick someone's lips / se lame la boca (T), le lame la boca (T) [(6)Tp.158,205]. See TĒN-TLI, PAHPALOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 223.