Principal English Translation:
something made, a creation; a creature, a child, offspring; or, an accomplishment (see Karttunen and Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
Tlachiualli. criatura o hechura.
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.
Frances Karttunen:
TLACHĪHUALLI creation, accomplishment, offspring / criatura o hechura (M), cosa hecha, obra, criatura (C) See CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
something made, done, created; creature, artifact, etc. patientive noun from chīhua.
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.
Attestations from sources in English:
ca itlachihualtzin = because it is his creature (because he made it); ytlachihualtzin = his creation (refers to a human, as a creation of God's); akin to the Spanish criatura or hechura; from tlachihualtzintli
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés:
something made, a product.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl:
Ce tlamantli tlen quicualtlaltoc macehualli ica imah. “Ni ahahuilli ni tlachihualli nican. ”
IDIEZ morfología:
tla1, chīhua (tlachiuhtli).