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niquinquixtia in notahua.

Headword: 
niquinquixtia in notahua.
Principal English Translation: 

for a child to imitate its parents or be like the parents in their customary ways of being (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
niquinquixtia ynnotaua, niquinquixtia ynnotahua
Alonso de Molina: 

niquinquixtia ynnotaua. (pret. oniquinquixti.) imitar el hijo asus padres, o parecerles enlas costumbres.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 72r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Molina's example is a sentence in the first person singular (I/my).

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence