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tlacali.

Headword: 
tlacali.
Principal English Translation: 

to lie down, to fling oneself down; to fling, cast, pitch something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahcali
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhkɑli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHCAL(I) vrefl,vt to lie down, to fling oneself down; to fling, cast, pitch something / se acuesta, se tira (T), lo tira, lo bota, lo tumba, lo vuelca (T) [(12)Tp.159,207,218,(9)Xp.34,47,62,75]. See (I)HCAL(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 260.