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hualla.

Headword: 
hualla.
Principal English Translation: 

to come hither, to approach (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huāllā
IPAspelling: 
wɑːllɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀLLĀ to come hither, to approach / venir hacia acá (M) This is a compound of HUĀL- and the verb YĀ, but the HUĀL- has been absorbed into the stem so that no other prefixes can intervene, and there is assimilation of the Y to preceding L. The YĀ element behaves like free YĀ-, being suppletive with HU(I). The present singular form is HUĀLLAUH, and the present plural is HUĀLHUIH. See HUĀL- the verb YĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 81.

Attestations from sources in English: 

As Frances Krug points out, hualla was an unusual verb in discussions of the assumption or taking of a political office in the early seventeenth century, but it is found in a set of annals in association with an event in 1601. (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 2, 1524–1674, p. 810, p. 811)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, pp. 70, 72, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

hualla = venir; aualazque (por an-ualazque) = vendréis
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxv, xxxvi.