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ayoa tlacualloa.

Headword: 
ayoa tlacualloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to put on a banquet or function to celebrate a wedding (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ayoa tlaqualloa, ayohua tlaqualohua, youa tlaqualoua
Alonso de Molina: 

ayoa tlaqualloa. (pret. oayoac otlaqualloac.) hazer banquete o combite, por respecto del que se casa. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

youa tlaqualoua. lo mismo es que ayoa tlaqualoa. (Pre. oayouac otlaquallouac.) /3v/

Attestations from sources in English: 

in quennjn tlaqualoia (in quenin tlaqualoya),necoanotzaloia = the manner of eating, of banqueting (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 37, 201.