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tlacecehuilia.

Headword: 
tlacecehuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to conciliate someone (see Karttunen); to appease someone who is angry (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaceceuilia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑseseːwiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaceceuilia. nite. (pret. onitetlaceceuili.) aplacar al enojado. o apaziguar a los reñidos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACECĒHUILIĀ vt to conciliate someone / aplacar al enojado (M), se reconcilia con el (T) [(3)Tp.209]. See CĒHUIĀ.

TLACECĒHUILILIĀ applic. TLACECĒHUILIĀ.

TLACECĒHUILĪLŌ nonact. TLACECĒHUILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 253.

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