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chicotlatoa.

Headword: 
chicotlatoa.
IPAspelling: 
tʃikotɬɑhtoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

chicotlatoa. ni. (pret. onichicotlato.) desuariar el enfermo, o blasfemar el blasfemo, o hablar cautelosamente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHICOTLAHTOĀ to rave, to blaspheme, to speak cagily / desvariar el enfermo, o blasfemar el blasfemo, o hablar cautelosamente (M) [(1)Cf.94r,(3)Tp.124]. The literal sense of this is to speak in a less than forthright manner. T has CUA for CO. See CHICO, TLAHTOĀ. CHICOTLAHTŌLŌ nonact. CHICOTLAHTOĀ. CHICOTLAHTŌLTIĀ caus. CHICOTLAHTOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 50.