Nican ypan xihuitl yn omotlali altepetl quitlalique tlaxcalteca nican cuitlaxcoapā motenehua siudad de loz angeles = Here in this year the altepetl was established. The Tlaxcalans established it here at Cuitlaxcohuapan, called the city of the angels
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 70–71.
yntzallan motlallico ynin ome tepeme yn omoteneuh tecpayo. ynic ome tepetl ytoca nonohualcatepetl, huel yntzallan yntloc yn yn motlallico = They settled between two mountains. [First] was the said Tecpayo; second was the mountain named Nonohualcatepetl. It was right between them, by them, that they settled.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 196–197.
Nauhcampa ximotlallica ximoxelloca xitlahtocayotican = settle yourselves in the four quarters: disperse yourselves. Form rulerships (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 110–111.
niman conan in inamic ycahuayopan contlali = then he took his spouse and put her on his horse (early seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 141.
niCan motlalilia pena = the penalty is set here (Azcapotzalco, 1703)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 14, 96–97.
motlalli tzĩpan ỹ teyacanaz = Tzimpan was installed to be leader.
(1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 120–121.
yc ce onca motlaliq˜ = they settled once and for all (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 50–51.
nocontlalia = I place myself
quimotlalili = he ordered
nictlalin (i.e. nictlali) = I set it down, put it down, placed it in order
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.
quitlālia = he places it (colonial Mexico)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 9.
"1556 Omotlalique mochi in altepeme in mochi Provincia Tlaxcalan (p. 741)" = "1556. All of the cities in the whole province of Tlaxcala were established." (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 1, part 1, 1519–1739)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, p. 73, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.