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totahuan.

Headword: 
totahuan.
Principal English Translation: 

our parents (see Molina and attestations); often equated with mother/father, regularly paired and almost as one being

Orthographic Variants: 
totauan
Alonso de Molina: 

totauan. nuestros padres.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

za uel centlaca yn totahuan ce ynnan ce ynta yn otechiuhque = son una misma persona nuestros padres, una sola madre un solo padre nos crearon
Catálogo de documentos escritos en Náhuatl, siglo XVI, v. 1 (Tlaxcala: Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 27.

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