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tlalchihuic.

Headword: 
tlalchihuic.
Principal English Translation: 

in the direction of the ground (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālchihuīc
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltʃiwiːk
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLCHIHUĪC in the direction of the ground / hacia la tierra (C) [(3)Cf.80v,93v]. This is conventionally paired with AHCOHUĪC together with the verb (I)TTA, the whole phrase meaning ‘to look someone up and down,' that is, to make much of someone and thereby to honor that person. See TLĀLCHI, -HUĪC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 274.