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tlamahuizoltia.

Headword: 
tlamahuizoltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to divert or entertain someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamahuizōltiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑwisoːltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMAHUIZŌLTIĀ vt to divert or entertain someone / lo divierte (Z) [(2)Zp.47,195]. In both attestations the vowel before –LTIĀ is marked long. See MAHUIZOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 279.

MAHUIZŌLTIĀ See TLAMAHUIZŌLTIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 280.