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iloti.

Headword: 
iloti.
Principal English Translation: 

to turn back, go back, to return; to diminish; for a disease to become less severe, abate, retreat

IPAspelling: 
iloːti
Alonso de Molina: 

iloti. (pret. oilot.) afloxarse la enfermedad.
iloti. n. (pret. onilot.) boluerse o tornarse de donde yua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 37v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ILŌT(I) to return whence one came; for an illness to abate / volverse o tornarse de donde iba (M), aflojarse la enfermedad (M) [(1)Bf.7r,(2)Cf.71v,102v, (I)Rp.33].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 105.

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