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the act of sweeping (often, a ceremony or ritual, but also a form of labor demanded by colonists of Nahuas)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 198.

the act of sweeping (see attestations)

sweeper, or one who sweeps (see Molina)

tɬɑtʃpɑːnwɑːstɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlachpānhuāztli

a broom (see Karttunen)

to sweep s.o.’s house.
# persona recoge basura de algún lado de otro. “Victorina le barre a mi mama porque ella esta sola y no puede hacer todo el trabajo.”

a broom for sweeping (see Molina)

one who sweeps something (see Molina)

tɬɑtʃpɑːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlachpāntli

a place that has been swept (see Karttunen)

what?, that which.
what?, that which.

a circular stone with a hole through the middle, usually placed on the side of a ball court

to steal something (see attestations)

tɬɑtʃtekini

thief (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachco, teotlachtli, teutlachtli

indigenous ball court, ball game
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuializtli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuialoni
Orthographic Variants: 
tlaciacauilli

something hugged under the armpits or carried by gripping underneath the armpits (see Molina)

something hugged under the armpits or carried by gripping it underneath the armpit (see Molina)