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temateloa.

Headword: 
temateloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to stumble, to stub one's toe (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
temateloā
IPAspelling: 
temɑteloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TEMATELOĀ vrefl to stumble, to stub one's toe / topetea, pisa en un piedra y se magulla el pie (T) [(3)Tp.158]. See TE-TL, MATELOĀ.

TEMATELŌLŌ nonact. TEMATELOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 222.