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poor (see Molina); a poor person, poor people, the poor (see Sahagún); the name taken by the famous friar Toribio de Benavente, one of the renowned "first twelve" Franciscans in Mexico; also, a humble Nahua person's name

the Nahuatl name taken by Fray Toribio de Benavente; also, a name taken by humble rural people in Tlaxcala in the sixteenth century, and the name of an alguacil mayor in the Mexico City area in 1564 (Luis Motolinia, not called don, so possibly a Spaniard); the name would not have an accent in Nahuatl, so the addition of the accent represents a Hispanization of the name

motoliːniɑːni

a poor person

Orthographic Variants: 
motomaua

for something to get fat, thick; or, for something to grow (see Molina)

moːtohtɬi

a little animal, such as a squirrel (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mototzin yyapā

one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
motoxauilia
Orthographic Variants: 
motquitica uino

pure wine, not mixed with anything else (see Molina; partly a loan word, huino = vino = wine)