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acualitoa.

Headword: 
acualitoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to gossip about someone in a negative way, to say bad things about someone; from a- (not), cualli (good), itoa (to speak) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
aqualitoa
Alonso de Molina: 

aqualitoa. nite. (pret. oniteaqualito.) dezir mal de otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 7r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality