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nezcayotia.

Headword: 
nezcayotia.
Principal English Translation: 

to signify; to mark something; to indicate something (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
neːskɑːyoːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nezcayotia. nitla. (pret. onitlanezcayoti.) denotar, figurar o significar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 71v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĒZCĀYŌTIĀ vt to mean, denote, indicate something / denotar, figurar, o significar algo (M) [(1)Cf.101v]. See NĒZCĀYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 172.

Attestations from sources in English: 

quinezcayotia yntla vel qualli melavac monemitia = they are signifying if he really lives well and honestly, with peace
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 102–103.