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mayanaltia.

Headword: 
mayanaltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to starve someone to death (literally, to make someone be hungry) (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
mɑyɑːnɑltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

mayanaltia. nite. (pret. onitemayanalti.) matar de hambre a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAYĀNALTIĀ caus. MAYĀN(A)

MAYĀN(A) to be hungry / tener hambre (M)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 141.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Mayānaltia = 'starve'
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 191.

themes: 
Death