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ahuilia.

Headword: 
ahuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to irrigate (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ɑhwiliɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ahuilia. nitla. (pret. onitlaahuili.) regar la huerta o los trigos. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynnitechcopa atl yn quauhximalpan ynic tlaavililo in imilpan españolesme in ompa onoque = Concerning the water at Quauhximalpan, with which the fields of the Spaniards who live there are irrigated (Coyoacan, 1557)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 35, 218–219.

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