to remove the kernels from dried ears of maize (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlaōya
IPAspelling:
tɬɑoːyɑ
Frances Karttunen:
TLAŌY(A) pret: TLAŌX to remove the kernels from dried ears of maize / desgrana (T) [(3)Tp.233]. T appears to have the reflex of a short vowel in this verb and in its nonactive form, but the vowel is long in basic ŌY(A) ‘to shell something’ and is attested long in T in the applicative form TLAŌHUILIĀ.
TLAŌHUILIĀ applic. TLAŌY(A).
TLAŌYALŌ nonact. TLAŌY(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.