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amapohuani.

Headword: 
amapohuani.
Principal English Translation: 

a reader, or announcer of a legal pronouncement; an interpreter of a text (see Molina and attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
amapoani
IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑpoːwɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

amapoani. lector, o relator de proceso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

amapohuani = interpreters of text
David Eduarto Tavárez, The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 127.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition