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yollotzetzeloa.

Headword: 
yollotzetzeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to empty out, cleanse someone’s heart (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōllohtzetzeloā
IPAspelling: 
yoːllohtsetseloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLLOHTZETZELOĀ vt to empty out, cleanse someone’s heart / le sacude el corazón, le limpia el corazón (T) [(3)Tp.220]. T has characteristically lost a glottal stop in the second syllable but leaves evidence of it in the syllable’s short O. If YŌLLŌ-TL were the initial component, there would be the reflex of Ō instead. See YŌLLOH-TLI, TZETZELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 342.