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nahuatlatoa.

Headword: 
nahuatlatoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to interpret or speak Nahuatl

Orthographic Variants: 
nahuatlahtoa
Attestations from sources in English: 

no oalnaoatlatotia, qnoaloquechilitia (a hook over the q), quinoalotlaxilitia, quinoallaixtlatitia, quinoaliacan, quinoaliacantia = also came interpreting for them, planning their route, conducting them, showing them the way, leading and guiding them (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 90.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

çan ocçepa yehuatl toctrinan tonahuacopa mitota = diciendo la doctrina en nuestra idioma nåhuatl
(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 390–391.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition