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maolinia.

Headword: 
maolinia.
Principal English Translation: 

to move one’s hand (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māolīniā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːoliːniɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀOLĪNIĀ vrefl to move one’s hand / mueve la mano (Z) [(2)Zp. 86, 171]. There is a vowel length discrepancy between –OLĪNIĀ in compounds and ŌLĪNIĀ as a free form. See MĀ(I)-TL, ŌLĪNIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.