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temallo.

Headword: 
temallo.
Principal English Translation: 

something infected (See Karttunen), something full of pus (see Siméon)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēmalloh
IPAspelling: 
teːmɑlloh
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMALLOH something infected / tiene pus (T), infección (Z) [(1)Tp.227,(2)Zp.71,220]. Z is inconsistent in the vowel length pattern but has a reflex of the final glottal stop; T is reliable about the vowel length but has lost the final glottal stop. See TĒMAL-LI, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 222.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

temalli = pus; tamallo, purulento
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xli.

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