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motlacuitlahuiani.

Headword: 
motlacuitlahuiani.
Orthographic Variants: 
motlacuitlauiani
IPAspelling: 
motɬɑkwitɬɑwiɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

motlacuitlauiani. hombre cuidadoso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 060v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOTLACUITLAHUIĀNI guardian of something / el que cuida de algo (C), hombre cuidadoso (M) [(1)Cf.44r]. C contrasts this with MOTĒCUITLAHUIĀNI ‘guardian of someone.’ See CUITLAHUlĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.