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paltilia.

Headword: 
paltilia.
IPAspelling: 
pɑltiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

paltilia. nite. (pret. onitepaltili.) mojar a otro.
paltilia. nitla. (pret. onitlapaltili.) mojar algo.
71m2-79r. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PALTILIĀ vrefl,vt to get wet, soaked; to wet, soak something / se moja (T), mojar a otro (M), mojar algo (M), se lo moja (T) applic. PALTI.

PALTILILIĀ applic. PALTILIĀ.

PALTILĪLŌ nonact.. PALTILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 186.