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temamalhuazco.

Headword: 
temamalhuazco.
Principal English Translation: 

one who is in the cradle of one's arms; part of a metaphor for commoners

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Tlatoani and Tlatocayotl in the Sahagún Manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 (1980), 227.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in itconi, in mamaloni, in tecuexanco, in temamalhuazco yetiuh = one who is carried, who is borne on the back, one who is upon one's lap, in the cradle of one's arms [i.e. the commoners]
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Tlatoani and Tlatocayotl in the Sahagún Manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 (1980), 227.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles