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naltona.

Headword: 
naltona.
Principal English Translation: 

to make something clear and known everywhere (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
nɑːltoːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

naltona. (pret. onaltonac.) hazer claro por todas partes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĀLTŌNA to be entirely clear, transparent / hacer claro por todas partes (M), estar traspasado de luz y trasparente (C) [(1)Cf.18r]. See NĀL-, TŌNA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 158.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nal. y Nalco. no se halla sino con este nombre, atl. analco. aunque si, en composicion. v.g. nalquiça. naltona. Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocabulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones que en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 11r.