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ocelmotlahueliltic.

Headword: 
ocelmotlahueliltic.
Orthographic Variants: 
ocelmotlaueliltic
IPAspelling: 
oːseːlmotɬɑweːliltik
Alonso de Molina: 

ocelmotlaueliltic. o desuenturado deti, guay deti.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 75r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ŌCĒLMOTLAHUĒLILTIC Oh, how wretched you are. Woe to you. / o desventurado de tí, guay de tí (M), desdichadísimo (C) [(1)Cf.59v]. This is specifically second person singular, but the MO- could be replaced with any of the other possessive prefixes with a corresponding change in reference. See Ō, -CĒL, TLAHUĒLILTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 176.