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tɬɑhtoːltʃikɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlatolchicaua
tɬɑhtoːltʃihtʃiːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlatolchichiualiztli
tɬɑhtoːltʃitoːniɑ
tɬɑhtoːltʃiyɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtōlchiya

to await someone’s order (see Karttunen)

tɬɑhtoːltʃohtʃopoktɬi
tɬɑhtoːlkotoːnɑ
tɬɑhtoːlkwɑwtik
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtōlcuauhtic

someone with a strong, commanding voice (see Karttunen)

tɬɑhtoːlkwehkwepɑ
tɬɑhtoːlkwehkwepɑlistɬi
tɬɑhtoːlkwepɑ

to contradict oneself or retract; to contradict what someone else says; to disrupt speech (see Molina)

tɬɑhtoːlkwepɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtolcuepaliztli

the art of translation, literally, the "turning of words"

Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 101.

tɬɑhtoːlkwikwi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtolcuicui

to gossip (see Molina)

to be a witness
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing a manuscript of 1558 (https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlatolehua/187841; translated to English here by Stephanie Wood)

for the fruit of the pepper or the bean pod to form.
#Empieza a ponerse amarillo la concha del frijol de lo que han sembrado en la milpa. “La milpa de Baltasar bonito se madura el frijol porque le gusta dar hay”.
tɬɑhtoːleːwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlatoleuia, tlatoleuiya

to give false testimony against someone, or to accuse someone

John Sullivan, "Construcción de dos enunciados colectivos en el Cabildo de Tlaxcala," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 32 (2001), 305.

tɬɑhtoːlwɑːstɬi