Principal English Translation:
to shell or remove the kernels from an ear of maize, or something of the sort (see Karttunen and Carochi)
Horacio Carochi / English:
ōya = to shell
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 508.