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tlatlancotona.

Headword: 
tlatlancotona.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut things with the teeth; or, to bite something off and remove the morsel from the mouth (see Sahagún and other expressions of the morpheme in Molina)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlatlancotona = it cuts things (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 109.