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momoloca.

Headword: 
momoloca.
Principal English Translation: 

to bubble up; boil (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
momolokɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

momoloca. bullir, o heruir y manar el agua en las fuentes conel arena.
momoloca. (pret. omomolocac.) burbugear el agua, o levantarse gran polvo de cosas secas y liuianas assi como harina cal, o de cosas semejantes
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 059r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOMOLOCA to bubble up, to waft up on air currents / burbujear el agua, o levantarse gran polvo de cosas secas y livianas asi como harina, cal, o de cosas semejantes (M) See MOLŌN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 152.