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xittomoni.

Headword: 
xittomoni.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a sound on bursting; or, to form a blister (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃittomoːni
Alonso de Molina: 

xittomoni. ni. (pret. onixittomon.) rebentando sonar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XITTOMŌN(I) to make a sound on bursting; to form a blister / reventado sonar (M), se ampolla (T in construction with ‘hand’) [(3)Tp.165]. This is attested in the sources for this dictionary only in the compound MĀXITTOMŌN(I). The corresponding transitive verb in M would be XITTOMŌNIĀ.

XITTOMŌNĪHUA nonact. XITTOMŌN(I).

XITTOMŌNTIĀ caus. XITTOMŌN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 326.

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