to talk to someone else in a venerate and respectable manner and in submission (tribute homage) (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
mauiznotza
IPAspelling:
mɑːwisnoːtsɑ
Alonso de Molina:
mauiznotza. nite. (pret. onitemauiznotz.) hablar a otro con reverencia y acatamiento. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.