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tlai.

Headword: 
tlai.
Principal English Translation: 

to drink a beverage (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaī
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑiː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlay. ni. (pret. onitlaic.) beuer poleadas, cacao, pinolli, purga o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 120v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAĪ to drink a beverage / beber poleadas, cacao, pinolli, purga o cosa semejante (M), desayuna, toma atole en la mañana (T) [(3)Tp.239, (2)Zp.19,123]. M gives an independent entry for this as an intransitive verb, implying that the nonspecific object prefix TLA- has been fused with the stem. See the verb Ī.

TLAĪHUA nonact. TLAĪ.

TLAĪTIĀ caus. TLAĪ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 271.

themes: 
Beverages