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piltic.

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piltic.
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Alonso de Molina: 

piltic. gentil hombre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PILTIC something, someone noble / hombre gentil (M), cosa ahidalgada y noble (C) [(3)Cf.127v]. This contrasts with PĪLTIC 'something thin or tapered to a point.' See PIL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 196.