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temaloa.

Headword: 
temaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to become infected (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēmaloā
IPAspelling: 
teːmɑloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMALOĀ to become infected / infecta (T) [(1)Tp.227,(4)Zp.71,220]. M has temalloa and timalloa 'for an abscess to form.' The preterit of these is formed by adding -C, and they are given with medial 11 except in the preterit of temalloa, which appears as otemaloac. See TĒMAL-LI, TĪMALIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 222.

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