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.