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pipiltotontin.

Headword: 
pipiltotontin.
Principal English Translation: 

children (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

pipiltotonti. muchachos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

We will also find this modified by a prefix indicating male (oquichpipiltotontin, boys) or female (cihuapipiltotontin, girls). (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 276–277.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

in oquichpipiltotontin ynavac quivalvicazque y veveintin tlaca oquichtin auh in ҫivapipiltotontin yn navac quinvalvicazque y veveintin ҫivah ynic quimachtizque nepiyaliztle ivan nemalviliztli = A los niños los traerán junto a los hombres grandes, y a las niñas las traerán junto a las mujeres grandes para que aprendan honestidad y castidad (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 276–277.

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