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tlacanahuatilli.

tɬɑːkɑnɑːwɑtiːlli

Orthographic Variants:

tlacanauatilli

tlacanāhuiliā.

to help s.o. re-grind corn flour and make tortillas by hand.

# Nic. Una persona ayuda a otro a hacer tortillas. “Yo, una vez que me levanté, empezé a hacerle tortillas a mi hijo porque fue a la escuela”.

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tlacanechicoltin.

strangers, foreigners who now live among the locals (see Molina)

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tlacanecuilo.

someone who trades in enslaved human beings (see attestations); tlacanecuiloque (plural)

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a market place with a focus on selling enslaved human beings (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 19.

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