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motɬɑsohtɬɑk
motɬɑsohtɬɑni

to have a fever; to be burning hot
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 159.

to sign, affix a signature (literally, give oneself a name)

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)

for one to give off a clarity, or for something to shine (see Molina)