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motoliniani.

Headword: 
motoliniani.
Principal English Translation: 

a poor person

IPAspelling: 
motoliːniɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

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

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn manel Otontzintli ynmanel chichimecatl yn amo yximachoni yn amo maviztililoni yn ça ça vel tlapaltzitzintin yn motoliniani =although it be a [simpleminded] little Otomí or a [wild savage] Chichimec who is unknown and dishonorable, who are just really ordinary fellows, the poor.
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 134–135.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites