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tlalchihua.

Headword: 
tlalchihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to cultivate the land

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalchiua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltʃiːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalchiua. ni. (pret. onitlalchiuh.) beneficiar o labrar la tierra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlalchihua in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

v tlacatl yn opa tlalchiua = There are five people working land (Atenantitlan, 1554)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 9, 84–85.

tlalchihuaya = cultivated land
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhuan quito in testico yn Toltecatl yn iciuauh catca ono honpa tlachiuaya = y dijo el testigo, dijo que la mujer que era de Toltecatl también allí labraba (Atlixocan, 1558)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 96.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising