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zamahualtia.

Headword: 
zamahualtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to swell, ripen something (maize) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zamāhualtiā
IPAspelling: 
sɑmɑːwɑltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ZAMĀHUALTIĀ to swell, ripen something (maize) / lo hincha (maíz) (Z) [(2)Zp.67,193].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

themes: 
Corn, Maize