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a type of ball court, apparently having something to do with nahualli, the shape-shifting spirit, and having a significance relating to Tlaloc, the rain deity (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 172 and note 3.

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nahuallalania.

nɑːwɑllɑlɑniɑ

Orthographic Variants:

nauallalania

to ask a question with precaution and dissimulation (see Molina)

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nahuallalilia.

Orthographic Variants:

nauallalilia

to stalk or spy, to put an enemy in a tough spot (see Molina)

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nahuallatia.

Orthographic Variants:

nauallatia

to hide with the intention of harming another person (see Molina)

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nahuallatoa.

Orthographic Variants:

nauallatoa

to speak with caution or to pretend something (see Molina)

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nahuallatolli.

the language of the sorcerers
Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen, "Las lenguas divinas del México precolonial," Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 38 (1985), 3–14; see page 6.

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nahuallazotla.

nɑːwɑllɑsohtɬɑ

Orthographic Variants:

nauallazotla

to fake a love, to falsely love someone, or with lies (see Molina)

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nahualli.

nɑːwɑlli

Orthographic Variants:

nahualle, naualli, naoalli, naoale

a sorcerer; a shape-changer; a spirit, often an animal form or shape a person could take on (see Karttunen; Molina gives "witch"); hieroglyphs show it attached to the crown of the human head; see for example, Nahualecaxoc (MH904v) and Nahual (MH879v)

The root nahual- "means to transform, convert, transfigure, disguise, re-clothe, mask oneself, conceal, camouflage, and finally to trick."
Katarzyna Mikulska Dabrowska, "'Secret Language' in Oral and Graphic Form: Religious-Magic Discourse in Aztec Speeches and Manuscripts," Oral Tradition 25:3 (2010), 325–363, see page 327.

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