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tlalchitlaza.

Headword: 
tlalchitlaza.
Principal English Translation: 

to humiliate oneself and throw oneself to the ground; or, to do these things to another person (see Molina); to do abeisance or prostrate oneself (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltʃitɬɑːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalchitlaza. nino. (pret. oninotlalchitlaz.) humillarse y abatirse hasta el suelo.
tlalchitlaza. nite. (pret. onitetlalchitlaz.) humillar a otro assi.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLCHITLĀZ(A) vrefl to do obeisance, to prostrate oneself / humillarse y abatirse hasta el suelo (M) [(2)Cf.93v,120v]. See TLĀLCHI, TLĀZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 274.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality