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totoma.

Headword: 
totoma.
IPAspelling: 
tohtomɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

totoma. ni. (pret. onitoton.) deshilar lienzo.
totoma. nitla. (pret. onitlatoton.)
totoma. nite. (pret. onitetoton.) desemboluer o desfaxar criatura, o desabrochar a otro.
totoma. nino. (pret. oninototon.) desabrocharse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TOHTOM(A) vrefl.vt pret: TOHTON to undress; to unfasten or loosen something, to undress someone / desabrocharse (M), desenvolver o desfajar criatura, o desabrochar a otro (M), desenvolver o desatar algo (M) redup. TOM(A).

TOHTOMALŌ nonact. TOHTOM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243–244.

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