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momoxtiya.

Headword: 
momoxtiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to come apart, to get tattered (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
momoʃtiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MOMOXTIYA to come apart, to get tattered / se desmorona (Z) [(2)Zp.43.171]. Z also has MOHMOXTIC ‘something torn, tattered’ with an internal glottal stop. See MOMOTZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 152.