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cochcayotia.

Headword: 
cochcayotia.
Principal English Translation: 

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.