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tzomonia.

Headword: 
tzomonia.
IPAspelling: 
tsomoːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tzomonia. nitla. (pret. onitlatzomoni.) romper, o rasgar alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZOMŌNIĀ vt to break something / romper o rasgar alguna cosa (M). [(3)Tp.214]. See TZOMŌNĪ.

TZOMŌNĪLŌ nonact. TZOMŌNIĀ.

TZOMŌNILIĀ applic. TZOMŌNIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316.