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tonallatia.

Headword: 
tonallatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to conceal oneself by day, to protect oneself from the sun (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnallātiā
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑllɑːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALLĀTIĀ vrefl to conceal oneself by day, to protect oneself from the sun / se esconde en el día (Z) [(1)Zp.174]. This contrasts with TŌNALLATIĀ ‘to dry in the sun’. See TŌNAL-LI, TLÁTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

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