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zaniloa.

Headword: 
zaniloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to talk, converse (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zānīloā
IPAspelling: 
sɑːniːloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ZĀNĪLOĀ to talk, converse / lo platica (Z) [(2)Zp.99,201]. M has the applicative form of this verb in reduplicated form çaçanilhuia. See ZĀNĪL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition