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ellelmati.

Headword: 
ellelmati.
Principal English Translation: 

to be annoyed, pained, vexed by something

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), 217.

IPAspelling: 
eːllelmɑti
Alonso de Molina: 

ellelmati. nin. (pret. oninellelma.) recebir desgusto y pena de alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nin. Class 2 irregular: ōninēllelmah. ēllel-, an apparently nominal combining form associated with various kinds of bad feeling; mati.
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), 217.

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