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moquichtlalia.

Headword: 
moquichtlalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to place oneself as a man; to take the squatting position of a man

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), 45.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh in aca eoatica moqujchtlalia yaculpan qujtlalia in jnetlalpilil = And when someone squatted - placed himself as a man - he placed his knot over his shoulder (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), 45.

From oquichtli and tlalia.

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