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molonia.

Headword: 
molonia.
Principal English Translation: 

to process wool or feathers (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
moloːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

molonia. nitla. (pret. onitlamoloni) mollir lana o pluma.
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: 

MOLŌNIĀ vt to lighten something or to fill something with air by boiling, carding, tilling, etc. / mullir lana o pluma (M), labra (tierra), hocica, escarba (T for reduplicated form), lo hierva (T) This is abundantly attested, but only in T. See MOLŌN(I).

MOLŌNILIĀ applic. MOLŌNlĀ

MOLŌNĪLŌ nonact. MOLŌNlĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.

themes: 
Feathers
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