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tlatelchihualli.

Headword: 
tlatelchihualli.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who is scoffed at, reproached, cursed (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑteltʃiːwɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatelchiualli. escarnecido y reprochado assi, o reprouado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATELCHĪHUAL-LI someone scoffed at, reproached, cursed / escarnecido y reprochado… o reprobado (M), maldecido (Z) [(2)Zp.80,215]. See TELCHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 295.

Attestations from sources in English: 

y ni tla hueli loca, tlatel chi hual theov = in i:ntlahue:li:lo:ca:-tlatelchi:hual teo:uh = their malicious, cursed god
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 39.