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cotonilia.

Headword: 
cotonilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to share something with someone else (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kotoːniliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

cotonilia. nicte. (pret. onictecotonili.) partir algo con otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COTŌNILIĀ vt to cut, separate something / partir algo con otro (M) applic. COTŌN(A) COTŌNILILIĀ applic. COTŌNILIĀ COTŌNILĪLŌ nonact. COTŌNILIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 42.