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earthen canals

(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 530–531.

an earthen bowl; or, a ravine (see attestations)

tɬɑːlɑkiá
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalaquia

for something to get buried; to bury something, to set something in the earth, to plant something (transitive) (see Molina and Karttunen)

tɬɑːlɑːtɬ
tɬɑːlɑːʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālāx

small bedbug, mite (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahlayoquilitl

This wild, edible plant (perhaps a squash) is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

tɬɑːlɑyohtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālayohtli

a type of squash (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkɑkɑwɑkopiːnɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcacahuacopīna

to pull up, harvest peanuts (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkɑkɑwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcacahuatl

peanut (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkɑːwɑ

to leave the land, depart

Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 10.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcaualli

something forgotten; or, unoccupied land, not cultivated (see Molina)

tɬɑːlkɑːwɑlpɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcaualpan

on deserted land, unoccupied land

tɬɑlkɑːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcauani
tɬɑːlkɑːwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcauia, tlalcavia

to abandon, leave behind (see Lockhart); or, to give a position to another person upon vacating it (see Molina); to relinquish one's place to someone (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkɑmohtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcamohtli

sweet potato (see Karttunen)