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a grass hut

Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (Mexico City: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 125.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacujtetelli

a mound of earth (probably an understated description of a ruler's palace or its foundation)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 43.

a place name; e.g. San Pablo Tlachcuititlan, in or near Mexico City

(central Mexico, 1613)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 244–245.

tɬɑtʃkwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlachcuitl

a piece of sod (see Karttunen)

what?, that which.
1. for there to people making a big fuss with lots of noise someplace. 2. for there to be domesticated animals making a big fuss with lots of noise someplace.
#Hay juegos y risas con las personas.”Cuando hay una cosa en la casa de Maribel carcajean mucho porque hay muchos trabajadores”.

to look or see, or observe from a watchtower (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachiaoa

to stain things with grease (see Sahagún)

tɬɑtʃiɑloːni

viewer (a device for viewing, seeing
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 101.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachiamauilli

a hut or cabin used to store maguey (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachicaua

to ripen or to wither (speaking of crops) (see Molina)

place where the land is very hard.