Principal English Translation:
to name, sign
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.
Alonso de Molina:
tocayotia. nite. (pret. onitetocayoti.) empadronar a alguno, o matricular, o engrandecer y afamar a otro, o poner nombre, o nombrar a alguno, o llamarle por su nombre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
tocayotia. nitla. (pret. onitlatocayoti.) tassar, o poner precio alo que se vende, o nombrar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TŌCĀYŌTIĀ vt to give a name or value to someone or something, to spread someone's renown, to call someone by name / empadronar a alguno, o matricular, o engrandecer y afamar a otro, o poner nombre, o nombrar a alguno, o llamarle por su nombre (M), tasar o poner precio a lo que se vende, o nombrar (M) [(1)Bf.11r,(3)Tp.213]. Z has the variant TŌCĀITIĀ. See TŌCĀ(I)-TL, -YŌ. TŌCĀYŌTILIĀ applic. TŌCĀYŌTIĀ. TŌCĀYŌTĪLŌ nonact. TŌCĀYŌTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 242.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
nic. tōcāitl, -yōtl, -tia2.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.
Attestations from sources in English:
innomotlacatili in tonãtzin in sancta maria quimotocayotilique maria = our mother, Saint Mary, was born. They named her Mary
(late sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 12.