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noloa.

Headword: 
noloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to bend or fold over (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
noloɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

noloa. nitla. (pret. onitlanolo.) doblegar, o entortar algo desta manera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 73r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Hanns J. Prem puts this word in the shape category of "spirally twisted" (spiralig gedreht in German) when referring to hieroglyphs.
Matrícula de Huexotzinco (Ms. mex. 387 der Bibliothèque Nationale Paris), Graz, Austria (1974), 682.