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molehua.

Headword: 
molehua.
Orthographic Variants: 
moleua
IPAspelling: 
moːleːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

moleua. nitla. (pret. onitlamoleuh) amollentar la tierra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MŌLĒHU(A) vt to root about in the ground, to break up soil / amollentar la tierra (M), hocica (Z) |(2JZp.68,211]. Neither attestation has the first vowel marked long. This is attested only with the object prefix TLA-, which may be fused to the stem. See MŌL-LI, ĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.