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moteixpanhuiani.

Headword: 
moteixpanhuiani.
Principal English Translation: 

litigants, plaintives

Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua náhuatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1987), 41.

Orthographic Variants: 
moteixpanuiani, moteixpauiyani, mixnamicqui
Attestations from sources in English: 

ipampa omoteixpanhuique = because they complained (Coyoacan, 1557)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 12, 92–93.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yn niescribano nicaquiti yn moteixpanuiani; yo, el escribano, notifiqué a los pleitantes.

"sustantivo verbal, "pleitantes". Al igual que mixnamicqui, es un sustantivo singular con significado colectivo... "

Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua náhuatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1987), 41.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment