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xomolco tlayohuayan nicalaqui.

Headword: 
xomolco tlayohuayan nicalaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to hide oneself, a metaphor (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xomulco tlayuayan nicalaqui
Alonso de Molina: 

xomulco tlayuayan nicalaqui (pret. xomulco tlayouayan onicalac).
esconderse (metaphora).
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"xomolCo tlayohuayan"
Nahuatl Theater, vol. 4, Nahua Christianity in Performance by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 214.

"in xomolco y[n] tlayohuayan")
Anales de Juan Bautista (ca. 1582, Mexico City), published by Luis Reyes García in Cómo te confundes? Acaso no somos conquistados? (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2001), 264.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles