icnotlacayotl.

Headword:

icnotlacayotl.

Principal English Translation:

the state of being an orphan, or in misery, in poverty (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling:

iknoːtɬɑːkɑyoːtɬ

Alonso de Molina:

icnotlacayotl. horfandad o miseria.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

(I)CNŌTLĀCAYŌ-TL poverty, misery / orfandad o miseria (M) [(1)Cf.118v]. See (I)CNŌ-TL, TLACAYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 94.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

ma cayac quinhueyliliz ynin icnotlacayo = y jamás les vaya a hacer llorar su orfandad (Tepotzotlan, 1631)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 184–185.

themes:

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites