a possessed person (see Molina); literally, the owl-person became a nahualli
Orthographic Variants:
itic monaualtia in tlacatecolotl
Alonso de Molina:
itic monaualtia in tlacatecolotl. endemoniado. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 42v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.