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tetlachihuililiztli.

Headword: 
tetlachihuililiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

ad hoc noun meaning doing things for people

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 234.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tē-, tla-, chīhua, -lia, -liztli. 234

Attestations from sources in English: 

May also have the meaning of putting a hex on someone. (See Vázquez Gastelu, Arte de la lengua mexicana, 1689, 34v.)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Cuix q1uenmanian otitetlachihui? = As enhechizado alguna persona?
Antonio Vázquez Gastelu, Arte de lengua mexicana (Puebla de los Angeles, México: Imprenta Nueva de Diego Fernández de León, 1689), 34v.