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totocatihuetzi.

Headword: 
totocatihuetzi.
Principal English Translation: 

for a bird to dive suddenly in flight, or for a person to hurry in haste to do something (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totocatiuetzi
IPAspelling: 
totoːkɑtiwetsi
Alonso de Molina: 

totocatiuetzi. ni. (pret. onitotocatiuetz.) abatirse las aues, o correr alguno de priessa a hazer algo, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

abatirse el aue. mo, pilotiuetzo. totocatiuetzi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1r.

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