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motlamachtia.

Headword: 
motlamachtia.
Principal English Translation: 

rich and prosperous (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

motlamachtia. rico y prospero
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 060v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Oc xonmotlamachti, oc xonmocuiltono = May you continue rich, may you continue prosperous. Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 158–159.