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tlalolinaliztli.

Headword: 
tlalolinaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

an earthquake (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalollinaliztli, tlalolinalistli
Attestations from sources in English: 

"acatl 1681...ynic senpuali omey 23 tonali mani metztli junio ypan lunes omochiuh chicahuac tlalolinalistli" = "Reed (year) 1681...on Monday the 23rd day of the month of June, a strong earthquake occurred" (Códice Gómez de Orozco, 1524–1691)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. 118, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

yuã xilti pohuete sentepacqui yc matlactli de mayo = there was an earthquake very early in the morning (term does not appear; but this example is worth noting)
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), 176–177.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ochiuh[sic] tlalulinaliztl huel chicahuac opan ypan 8 oras... çaço ynic noyan teçhachan huehuez tepalt cali mochi = ocurrió un temblor muy fuerte dos veces, a las ocho horas... y en todas partes en las cases de la gent se cayeron paredes o toda la casa (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 434–435.