camanalitoa.

Headword: 
camanalitoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to tell a joke

IPAspelling: 
kɑmɑnɑːlihtoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

camanalitoa. nitla. (pret. onitlacamanalito.) dezir algo por passatiempo, o de burla.
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: 

CAMANĀLIHTOĀ vt to tell a joke / dice chiste (Z) [(2)Zp.39,185]. One of the two attestations has the second vowel marked long as well as the third one, but in related forms it is not long. See CAMANĀL-LI, IHTOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 23.

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