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atoctia.

Headword: 
atoctia.
Principal English Translation: 

to throw someone into the river; to throw something into the river so that the river would take it away (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːtoktiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

atoctia. nite. (pret. oniteatocti.) echar enel rio a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

atoctia. nitla. (pret. onitlaatocti.) echar algo enel rio paraque lo lleue.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aço omocalchichino anoço Otlah atocti. yntla ytlatqiui Ohuatococ ynic oquipopollo yn tleyn ic nimiya = perhaps his house burned [down] or perhaps fertile lands came to an end, if the river took his property away so that he lost what he made a living with
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 130–131.

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