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tonallatia.

Headword: 
tonallatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to dry in the sun, to sunburn (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnallatiā
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑllɑtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALLATIĀ vrefl to dry in the sun, to sunburn / se asolea… está quemado por el sol (Z) [(3)Zp.15,116,174]. This contrasts with TŌNALLĀTIĀ ‘to conceal oneself by day’. See TŌNAL-LI, TLATIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena