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zazaloa.

Headword: 
zazaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to align something, to patch something together (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zahzāloā
IPAspelling: 
sɑhsɑːloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ZAHZĀLOĀ vt to align something, to patch something together / pone en línea (Z), remienda (Z) [(4)Zp.11,108,193,214]. redup. ZĀLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynic cenca miequintin ҫatepan oquinextique yn tlahueliloque oquimomahuizpolhuique yntlacuiloltica yn aquique conҫaҫalohuaya puertatitech yn oncan yglesia mayor yohualtica = as many scoundrels afertward manifested and made insults about him in writing, sticking them on the doors of the cathedral at night (central Mexico, 1610)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 166–7.

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