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xiuhtlatla.

Headword: 
xiuhtlatla.
Principal English Translation: 

to be hot, to be burning with hunger (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃiwtɬɑtɬɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

xiuhtlatla. ni. (pret. onixiuhtlatlac.) hambrear.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XIUHTLATLA to be hot, to be burning with hunger / hambrear (M), tiene calor (Z) [(4)Zp.24,121,217,229]. See TLAXIUHTLATLA, XIHU(I)-TL, TLATLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 327.

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