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tlahuanaliztli.

Headword: 
tlahuanaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of drinking (alcoholic beverages)

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: 
tlauanaliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwɑːnɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauanaliztli. borrachez templada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 143v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tlāhuāna, -liztli. 236

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ypan altepetl quauhtinchan cenca vey y mochiva tlavanaliztli teixpan yvan ichtaca in pipiltin tlavana i macevaltin tlavana yc yolitlacolo yn totecuiyo yvan miyec aqualli onca quiçaz = en el pueblo de Cuauhtinchan se hacen grandes borracheras públicas y secretas; que los pillis se emborrachan; los macehuales se emborrachan y por esto se ofende a Nuestro Señor y de ahí resultan muchas cosas malas (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 304–305.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens
Beverages