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motecuitlahuiani.

Headword: 
motecuitlahuiani.
Principal English Translation: 

a guardian of someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
motēcuitlahuiāni
IPAspelling: 
moteːkwitɬɑwiɑːni
Frances Karttunen: 

MOTĒCUITLAHUIĀNI guardian of someone / el que cuida de ellas (C) [(1)Cf.44r]. C contrasts this with MOTLACUITLAHUIĀNI ‘guardian of something.’ See CUITLAHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents motecuitlahuiani in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).