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mitotiani.

Headword: 
mitotiani.
Principal English Translation: 

a dancer, a person that dances in public dances (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mihtoːtiɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

mitotiani. danzante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MIHTŌTIĀNI dancer / danzante (M) [(1)Zp. 39]. Z glosses this as ‘dance’ rather than ‘dancer,’ but from a derivational viewpoint, M’s gloss is the correct one. See IHTŌTIĀ .
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance