to eat supper; to serve supper to others (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cochcāyōtiā
IPAspelling:
kotʃkɑːyoːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
cochcayotia. nino. (pret. oninocochcayoti.) cenar.
cochcayotia. nite. (pret. onitecochcayoti.) dar de cenar a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
COCHCĀYŌTIĀ vrefl, vt to eat supper; to serve supper to others / cenar (M), dar de cenar a otro (M) [(3)Cf.28r,54v]. See COCHCĀYŌ-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.