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tecocoliani.

Headword: 
tecocoliani.
Principal English Translation: 

a detester, a hater (see Molina); an enemy (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
teːkokoːliɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tecocoliani. aborrecedor.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Tecocolianimê quin tocayotiâ Ingleses = los enemigos, que llaman ingleses (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 104.