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yaotla.

Headword: 
yaotla.
Principal English Translation: 

to make war on others (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
yɑːoːtɬɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

yaotla. nite. (pret. oniteyaotlac.) hazer guerra a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YĀŌTLA vt to make war on others / hacer guerra a otros (M) [(4)Cf.81v]. C gives as one example a reduplicated form used when many are involved in the fighting or by children at play when there are two opposing sides moyàyāōtlâ. See YĀŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 335.

themes: 
War, Conflict