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tlaoya.

Headword: 
tlaoya.
Principal English Translation: 

to remove the kernels from dried ears of maize (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaōya
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑoːyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAŌY(A) pret: TLAŌX to remove the kernels from dried ears of maize / desgrana (T) [(3)Tp.233]. T appears to have the reflex of a short vowel in this verb and in its nonactive form, but the vowel is long in basic ŌY(A) ‘to shell something’ and is attested long in T in the applicative form TLAŌHUILIĀ.

TLAŌHUILIĀ applic. TLAŌY(A).

TLAŌYALŌ nonact. TLAŌY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition