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om.

Headword: 
om.
Principal English Translation: 

prefix used in adding digits to larger numbers in the Nahuatl vigesimal number system and, plus (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
om
Frances Karttunen: 

OM- prefix used in adding digits to larger numbers in the Nahuatl vigesimal number system and, plus / y, más (K) Despite the vowel length discrepancy, this appears to be related to both ŌME 'two' and OC 'another, again.' Regular nasal assimilation gives this the form ON- with numbers beginning with a nonlabial consonant. See ŌME, OC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 178.

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