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tɬɑːltʃipɑ

in the direction of the ground (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːltʃipɑːwɑ

for it to get light in the momrning.

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.

tɬɑːltʃipɑːwyoh
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālchipāuhyoh

earth swept clean (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːltʃikiwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālchiquihuitl

strainer for maize soaked in lime water (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːltʃitɬɑːsɑ

to humiliate oneself and throw oneself to the ground; or, to do these things to another person (see Molina); to do abeisance or prostrate oneself (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːltʃiːwki

one who works the land; a farm worker, or a farmer (see Molina); and, seen in baptism records to refer to parents (probably farm workers)

This is a native plant of Mexico, Suaeda torreyana. It grows near Tlahuac, given that the soil there is salty, but it is also found in the north of Mexico.
La Jornada Virtual, April 15, 2003. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/04/15/04an1cul.php?printver=0

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcohualli

purchased land (see Molina)

the noise or din that warriors make (see Molina)

tɬɑːlkokoneːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcoconētl

type of venomous lizard (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkoːwɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcoalli, tlalcoualli

purchased land; a type of land tenure
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 237. See also p. 15, Sarah Cline, "The Testaments of Culhuacan," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.

tɬɑːlkoːloːtɬ

a farm laborer, apparently whether a live-in farm hand or a day laborer (see Molina; Engl. transl. here by SW)

for a part of a flat terrain to be uneven or sunken.

a name ("Tlalconetl," literally, "Child of the Earth"); also seen as a slug or a lizard

tɬɑːlkopiːnɑ

to dig a ditch for laying the foundation for a wall (see Molina; Engl. transl. here by SW)

land purchaser

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.

hole in the ground or burrow.
tɬɑːlkojoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcoyutl

a certain animal that hides underground or in a cave, such as the mole (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcuztli

yellow earth, or sort of vermillion (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalqua

to swear or pledge by kissing the ground, or to eat dirt (see Molina)