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tlancotona.

Headword: 
tlancotona.
Principal English Translation: 

to compromise something; to bite something and spit it out(?); to break the teeth of another person; to cut something with the teeth

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnkotoːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlancotona. nite. (pret. onitentlancoton.) tranzar algo, o morder sacando bocado, o quebrantar diente a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 127v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

tlancotona. (pret. nic. pret. onictlancoton.) tranzar o cortar algo con los dientes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 127v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quita[n]cotonque ce tlacatl ça[n] tlapic tepa[n]pa quichiuh juram[ent]o auh Sanct Ibolito quitla[n]coto[n]que[ue] = quebrantaron los dientes a un hombre que había jurado en falso por otros, en San Hipólito le rompieron los dientes (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 166–167.

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