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toquilia.

Headword: 
toquilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to succeed someone in office; to claim from someone else; to follow someone or something

IPAspelling: 
tokiliɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

toquilia. nocon. (pret. onocontoquili.) suceder a otro en cargo, officio, o en otra cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

toquilia. nonte. (pret. onontetoquili.) suceder a otro en cargo, officio, o en otra cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ayac quitoquiliz = no one its to claim it from him/her
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.