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tonameyoa.

Headword: 
tonameyoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to shimmer, to shine in rays (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnamēyoā
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑmeːyoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNAMĒYOĀ to shimmer, to shine in rays / esta resplandeciendo (C for compound with MAN(I), resplandecer el sol, echando rayos de sí (M for tonameyotia) [(1)Cf.77r]. See TŌNA, MĒY(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.