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Central Tarahumara
Etymology 1
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Verb
ralá (future raliméa)
- (transitive) buy
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Cognate with Northern Tepehuan tárai, O'odham taḍ, Hopi tana (“hoof”).
Noun
ralá
- foot
References
- Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101) (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 62
- Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, pages 41–42