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tlacazcaltiliztli.

Headword: 
tlacazcaltiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the rearing of children, the instruction of children (see Molina and Karttunen)

also, the rearing of people (a ceremony or ritual); the education of people

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 125, 198.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑskɑltilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacazcaltiliztli. crianza o doctrina destos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAZCALTILIZ-TLI rearing of children / crianza o doctrina de estos (niños) (M) [(1)Bf.11v]. See TLĀCAZCALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 253.

themes: 
Education