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cauhtia.

Headword: 
cauhtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to leave one's memory statement, or to make a testament (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

Cauhtiuh. dexar memoria de si, o hazer testamento. Pr. oninocauhtia. vel. oninocauhta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 13r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

to leave a person or persons behind at death; associated with making a testament
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.