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tlahuele.

Headword: 
tlahuele.
Principal English Translation: 

someone fierce, enraged (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahuēleh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑweːleh
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauele. sañudo, yracundo y brauo.
71m2-144r. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUĒLEH someone fierce, enraged / sañudo, iracundo, y bravo (M), muy bravo (C) [(1)Cf.81r, (2)Rp.141,145]. See TLAHUĒL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.