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cualitoa.

Headword: 
cualitoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to praise he/she who is good; to praise, or to speak well of another (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
qualitoa
Alonso de Molina: 

qualitoa. nino. (pret. oninoqualito.) alabarse que es bueno.
qualitoa. nite. (pret. onitequalito.) alabar, o dezir bien de otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 84v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

abonar a otro enla fama. nite, yequitoa. nite, qualitoa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1v.

themes: 
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