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matzoa.

Headword: 
matzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to predict, to warn someone about something; to make buns(?) (see Molina); also, a soft, folded tortilla (see Siméon)

Alonso de Molina: 

matzoa. nitla. (pret. onitlamatzo) hazer bollos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

matzoa (p. omatzo: nitla, o ic nitla-) = advertir, prevenir, hacer saber algo de alguien para que se cuide, sea prudente
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 262.

matzoa (s.) = tortilla doblada, plegada, reblandecida (r.matzoa ?)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 612.