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tlalchiuhqui.

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)

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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

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tlalcoalli.

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tlalcocomotzaliztli.

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tlalcoconetl.

tɬɑːlkokoneːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tlālcoconētl

type of venomous lizard (see Karttunen)

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tlalcohualli.

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.

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tlalcolotl.

tɬɑːlkoːloːtɬ

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tlālcomōltic.

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

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tlalconetl.

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

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tlalcopina.

tɬɑːlkopiːnɑ

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tlalcouhqui.

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.

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tlālcoyoctli.

hole in the ground or burrow.

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tlalcoyotl.

tɬɑːlkojoːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tlalcoyutl

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

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tlalcua.

Orthographic Variants:

tlalqua

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

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tlalcua.

to "eat earth," or to kiss the earth using fingers, touching the earth and then the mouth, a ritual (see attestations)

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tlalcuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

tlalquauitl, tlalhuahuitl, tlalquahuitli, tlalquahuitl

a measure for land, a rod ("land stick") (see attestations)

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tlalcualcan.

tɬɑːlkwɑlkɑːn

Orthographic Variants:

tlālcualcān

scenic spot (see Karttunen)

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tlalcualiztli.

Orthographic Variants:

tlalqualiztli

eating earth (a ceremony); or, the act of taking an oath in a certain ceremony; kissing the earth; or putting earth in one's mouth
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 71.

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tlalcuatimani.

Orthographic Variants:

tlalquatimani

an earth-eating gesture

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tlalcuechtic.

tɬɑːlkweːtʃtik

Orthographic Variants:

tlālcuēchtic

dust (see Karttunen)

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