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tetlacamachiliztli.

Headword: 
tetlacamachiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

obedience

IPAspelling: 
teːtɬɑːkɑmɑtʃilistɬi
Attestations from sources in English: 

in tetlacamachiliztli in nemi, in ca, in tlalticpac = the obedience of those who live now on earth (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 234.