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yaotia.

Headword: 
yaotia.
Principal English Translation: 

to contend with someone, or to make enemies with someone (see Molina); to fight, to make war on someone (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
jɑːoːtiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

yaotia. ninote. (pret. oninoteyaoti.) contender con alguno, o enemistarse con otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

“…auh yn tla oamechmomaquillique yn chimalzoltzintli yn itzquauhzoltzintli ynin niman ya uel anquichichiua yn chimalzoltzintli yn itzquauhzoltzintli yn at cana oytlacauhqui ca toncuizque ca ypan tiyaotizque…. = Y si les dan el escudo viejo, la macana vieja, luego los arreglarán se en alguna parte están descompuestos. Los tomaremos y con ellos haremos la guerra. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 148, 155.

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