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paltiya.

Headword: 
paltiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to get wet, soaked (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pɑltiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PALTIY(A) pret: PALTIX ~ PALTIYAC to get wet, soaked / mojarme (M for first pers. sg. Subject) T consistently has a short vowel in the initial syllable and Z a long one. The initial P is a survival of Proto-Uto-Aztecan *P, and this item is related to PĀC(A) 'to wash something/ PĀT(I) 'to dissolve,' and Ā-TL 'water, liquid.' M also has the variant palti.

PALTI See PALTIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 186.

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Water