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tlamatilia.

Headword: 
tlamatilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to calm down, to grow quiet; to calm, quiet someone, something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamatiliā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑtiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMATILIĀ vrefl, vt to calm down, to grow quiet; to calm, quiet someone, something / se calla (Z), lo calma, le hace callar, lo pacifica, lo sosiega (Z) [(6)Zp.24,92,117,173,195]. applic. TLAMATIYA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 281.

Attestations from sources in English: 

1691 Acaxihuitl icuac cualoc in tonalli niman tlayohuac mochin onezque in cicitlaltin Auh in opeuh ipan chicueh hora visperas San Bartolome Jueves zan huel tlamaticaya atle ehecatl mochiuh (p. 764) = 1691 Reed year. At this time there was a solar exlipse. Then it got dark and all the stars appeared. And it began at 8 oc'clock on the even of (the day of ) St. Bartholomew, Thursday. It was very quiet; there was no wind. (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 1, part 2, 1519–1697)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, p. 45. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)