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calzas totoma.

Headword: 
calzas totoma.
Principal English Translation: 

to untie someone's shoes; to undo the fastenings on one's stockings
(partially a loanword from Spanish, calzas, hose, socks, stockings)

Orthographic Variants: 
calças totoma
Alonso de Molina: 

calzas totoma. nite. (pret. onite calzas toton.) desatacar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Calças totoma. nino. desatacarse. Prete. oninocalças toton.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 11r.