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teihualiztli.

Headword: 
teihualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

sending someone away; bidding someone farewell; sending off a messenger

Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 176.

Orthographic Variants: 
teiualiztli
IPAspelling: 
teːiwɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

teiualiztli. despedimiento del que es deotro despedido y echado de casa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 95v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.