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mototli.

Headword: 
mototli.
Principal English Translation: 

a little animal, such as a squirrel (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
moːtohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

mototli. cierto animalejo como hardilla.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 060v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MŌTOH-TLI pl: -MEH squirrel / ardilla (C) [(1)Cf.2r,(1)Rp.106,(3)Xp.55].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents mototli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).