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mahuizotia.

Headword: 
mahuizotia.
Principal English Translation: 

to give honor or glory to another (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauizotia
IPAspelling: 
mɑwisoːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

mauizotia. nite. (pret. onitemauizoti.) dar honra, o gloria a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZŌTIĀ vt to divert or observe someone / lo divierte, lo observa (T) [(6)Tp.188,232]. Caus. MAHUIZOĀ

MAHUIZŌTILIĀ applic. MAHUIZŌTIĀ

MAHUIZŌTĪLŌ nonact. MAHUIZŌTIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 132.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yc quimmotenyoltili yc quimmihtauhcayotili, yc quimmomahuizçotili = he honored her
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 248.