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mimiloa.

Headword: 
mimiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to roll; to roll over repeatedly; roll on the ground; or to tip over or knock over

IPAspelling: 
mihmiloɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mimiloa. nino. (pret. oninomimilo.) rodar por el suelo o rebolcarse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

mimiloa. nitla. (pret. onitlamimilo.) trastornar o derrocar cantaro, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ihuan iquac cequi hualmomimilo in cepayahuitl hualixxitin in Iztactepetl = And at this time some of the snow came rolling down on Iztactepetl; its surface came falling in (there was an avalanche) (17th c., central New Spain)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 86–87.

nino. Class 3: ōnimimiloh.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 225.

Attestations from sources in English: 

mimilolo = passive imperfect of mimiloa = to be rolled over, or to be tipped over (SW)
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/mimilolo/55032