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comolihui.

Headword: 
comolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for flat land to become furrowed or have gullies (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
comoliui
IPAspelling: 
komoːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

comoliui. (pret. ocomoliuh.) hazerse barrancoso lo que era llano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

comoliui = it is hollowed
cocomoliui = there are separate depressions (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 113.

IDIEZ morfema: 
comōlihui.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
for part of a surface to become indented when struck.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Ce tlamantli huahcalihui quentzin quemman motehtzona canahya. “Noahui icobetah comoliuhqui pampa huetzqui huan motehtzonqui pan tetl. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
#ondular. Una cosa que queda hondo porque se golpea algún lado. “la cubeta de mi tía quedo ondulada porque se cayo y se pego en la piedra.”
IDIEZ morfología: 
comōlli, ihui1.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.
themes: 
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