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tlaocoyaliztli.

Headword: 
tlaocoyaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

sadness (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑoːkojɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaocoyaliztli. tristeza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 129v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynic tlaocoyalo netequipacholo. nemauhtillo yhuã tlatlauhtilo yn tt˚. Dios. ynic techmopalehuiliz = showing sadness, worry, fear, and prayer to our lord God to aid us (central Mexico, 1611)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 190–1.

themes: 
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