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ayotia.

Headword: 
ayotia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make something wet, to irrigate, to sprinkle water on something (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːyoːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ayotia. nitla. (pret. onitlaayoti.) aguar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀYŌTIĀ vt to irrigate something, to sprinkle water on something / aguar algo (M) [(3)Tp.118]. See Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 16.

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