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tlaocolli.

Headword: 
tlaocolli.
Principal English Translation: 

sadness (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlavcolli, tlaucolli, tlaocoli, tlayocolli, tlayocoli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑoːkolli
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlaocolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

choquiztli cenmantícatca, cicihua. Yhuan, Pipiltzin, ca huel huey tlaocoli yno motaya / Cho:quiztli cenmanti catca cicihua: i:hua:n pipiltzitzin, ca huel hue:i tlao:co:lli in o:motaya = The crying of the women and children was great, so there was very great mourning.
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 52.

in tlavcolli yn elçiçiuhtli = it is in sadness, it is with sighs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 240.

themes: 
Emotions