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tlachihualiztli.

Headword: 
tlachihualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

doing things, deeds

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), 236.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachiualiztli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlachiualiztli. el acto de hazer alguna obra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 117v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tla-, chīhua, -liztli. 236

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns