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cocotona.

Headword: 
cocotona.
Principal English Translation: 

for bread (or the like) to crumble or come apart; or, to pinch or pick at someone (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
koːkotoːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cocotona. nitla. (pret. onitlacocoton.) desmenuzar o despedazar pan, o cosa semejante.
cocotona. nite. (pret. onitecocoton.) pellizcar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh i nica yn cuen za cocotontiuh = aqui sus tierras nada mas estan fraccionadas (Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 194.