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xomolli caltechtli nicnotoctia.

Headword: 
xomolli caltechtli nicnotoctia.
Principal English Translation: 

to hide oneself, a metaphor (see Molina, whose example is in the first person, as we reproduce here)

Orthographic Variants: 
xomulli caltechtli nicnotoctia
Alonso de Molina: 

xomulli caltechtli nicnotoctia (pret. xomulli caltechtli onicnotocti
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: 

The words xomolli and caltechtli appear paired in many sources, including the Treatise on the Heathen Superititions (Andrews and Hassig edition, 1987), 186; the General History of the Things of New Spain or Florentine Codex, Parts 5–6, 24; the Huehuetlatolli (the Torquemada/Zurita edition from 1901, 32); Fortino Hipólito Vera, Tesoro guadalupano (1889), vol. 1, 291, and more.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles