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motlatlaitlani.

Headword: 
motlatlaitlani.
IPAspelling: 
motɬɑhtɬɑihtɬɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

motlatlaitlani. mendicante que pide limosna.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOTLAHTLAIHTLANI beggar, one who seeks alms / mendicante que pide limosna (M) [(1)Tp.159J. See TLAHTLAIHTLAN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.