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tɬɑmekɑjoːtiːloːni
tɬɑmekɑjoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamecayutl

braid(s) (see Molina); cord(s) (see Sahagún)

to remove weeds from around a food crop; to cultivate

a planted field or other place that has been weeded.
to remove weeds that are next to an edible plant.
# una persona le quit alas hojas lo que no sirve a otro que si sirve. “Ana le escarda el ajojolín porque quiere que crezca bonito”.
to weed s.o.’s planted field.
# una persona le quita yerbas, hojas lo que no sirve la milpa de otro. “ayer le escarde a Elpidio porque el paga bien”.
tɬɑmelɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelaua, hualamelahua

to go straight
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), 237.

tɬɑmelɑːwɑkɑːtʃiːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelauacachiualiztli

the act of performing some work in a direct, proper, or just way (see Molina)

tɬɑmelɑːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelaualiztli
tɬɑmelɑːwɑltiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelaualtia

to take something on a straight road somewhere; or, to straighten out or set right the intention of what one is doing for some end or purpose (see Molina)

tɬɑmelɑːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelauani

one who happens to go past when heading somewhere; or, one who declares or exposes something; or one who straightens what is twisted (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelauhca tamachiualoni

a straight measurement (see Molina)

something straight and properly measured (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamelauh

straight

a plain or direct song

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 164.

something declared, something straightened; as in, put right (see Molina)