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tlacuauhnahuatia.

Headword: 
tlacuauhnahuatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to strictly enjoin (?)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑːwnɑːwɑtiɑ
Attestations from sources in English: 

otechmotlacuauhnahuatilih = we were strictly enjoined by....
Byron McAfee translation of the Tepotzotlan Techialoyan, published in Donald Robertson, The Techialoyan Codex of Tepotztotlan: Codex X (Rylands Mexican Ms. 1), Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 43:1 (Sept. 1960), 126.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

titlacuauhnahuatia = nosotros mandamos
Anneliese Monnich, "El Altepeamatl de Ocoyacac, México," Indiana 2 (1974), 169.