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camachaloa.

Headword:

camachaloa.

Principal English Translation:

to open one's mouth wide (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling:

kɑmɑtʃɑloɑː

Alonso de Molina:

camachaloa. ni. (pret. onicamachalo.) abrir mucho la boca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

CAMACHALOĀ to open the mouth wide / abrir mucho la boca (M) [(2)Zp.20,154,(3)Xp33]. Both Z and X give this with a long vowel in CHAL, but in the abundant attestations of CAMACHAL-LI elsewhere, the vowel is short. See CAMACHAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 23.

IDIEZ morfema:

camachāloā.

IDIEZ traduc. inglés:

to open one’s mouth.

IDIEZ def. náhuatl:

ni. Macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli quitlapoa icamac. “Ne conetzin tlahuel camachaloa quemman tzahtzi. ”

IDIEZ def. español:

A. ni. una persona o fiera abre su boca. “Ese bebé mucho abre su boca cuando llora”.

IDIEZ morfología:

camachālli, oā1.

IDIEZ gramática:

tlach3.