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tololo.

Headword: 
tololo.
Principal English Translation: 

owl (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tololoh
IPAspelling: 
tololoh
Frances Karttunen: 

TOLOLOH owl / tecolote, buho (Z) [(3)Zp.21,120,224]. In one of three attestations Z marks all vowels long, although by general rule the vowel of the last syllable is necessarily short. In the other two attestations no vowels are marked long.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 244.

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