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momati.

Headword: 
momati.
Principal English Translation: 

it appears, it is thought, it happens that (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
momɑti
Frances Karttunen: 

MOMAT(I) pret: MOMAT it appears, it is thought, it happens that / se halla, se engríe, se acostumbra, se impone (T) [(4)Tp.152, (4)Zp.5,66,171]. This is a lexicalized use of the third person reflexive form of MAT(I) ‘to know something’ The first person reflexive is also lexicalized and means ‘it seems (to me) that’. See MAT(l).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 152.

themes: 
Philosophy