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icniuhyotica.

Headword: 
icniuhyotica.
Principal English Translation: 

by way of friendship or in a friendly way (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

icniuhyotica. porvia de amistad, oamigablemente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

at amo icnjuhiotica: at choqujztli, at ixaiotl in qujҫa = not by way of friendship; perhaps it is of weeping, of tears (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 137.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
Friendship, Affection