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temilia.

Headword: 
temilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to throw something onto something, to fill in on top of something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēmiliā
IPAspelling: 
teːmiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMILIĀ vt to throw something onto something, to fill in on top of something / se lo echa (cosa seca) (T) This is homophonous with the applicative form of TEMĪA, applic. TĒM(A)

TĒMILĪLO nonact. TĒMILIĀ

TĒMILILIĀ applic. TĒMILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 223.