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ameyalco.

Headword: 
ameyalco.
Principal English Translation: 

natural springs (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːmeːyɑlko
Alonso de Molina: 

ameyalco. manantial de agua o de fuentes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMĒYALCO spring / manantial (T)[(1)Tp.170]. This is a locative meaning literally ´at the spring.´ See ĀMĒYAL-LI, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 10.

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