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zoloni.

Headword: 
zoloni.
Principal English Translation: 

for a river to move with great impetus and noise (see Molina) (a verb)

IPAspelling: 
soloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

zoloni. (pret. ozolon.) yr con gran ympetu y ruido el rio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ZOLŌN(I) for something to rush along with a great noise / ir con gran ímpetu y ruido el río (M) [(1)Cf.74v].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 348.

themes: 
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