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cotoctli.

Headword: 
cotoctli.
Principal English Translation: 

the crust of bread (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kotoktɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

cotoctli. mendrugo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COTOC-TLI pl; -MEH morsel, crumb, fragment / mendrugo (M), pedazo (T) See COTŌN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 42.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cotoctli.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
root of TLACOTOCTLI, COTOTZTZIN and COTOCTIC. a piece of a tortilla.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
TLACOTOCTLI, COTOTZTZIN huan COTOCTIC iyollo. Tlaxcalcotoctli [Mc. 24v].
IDIEZ morfología: 
cotōni (tlachiuhtli).
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlat.