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tlamatcatlalia.

Headword: 
tlamatcatlalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to help someone rest in peace

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 33, 182.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in njqujlochtia, in amonaniotzin, in amotaiotzin: ma tlaltech ximaxitican, ma amechmotlamatcatlalili in totecujo = I reply to your motherhood, to your fatherhood. Find repose. May our lord rest you in peace (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 182.