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tlateochihualiztli.

Headword: 
tlateochihualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a blessing, the act of blessing something (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlateochiualiztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑteoːtʃiːwɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlateochiualiztli. el acto de consagrar o bendezir algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 135r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATEŌCHĪHUALIZ-TLI blessing, the act of blessing something /el acto de consagrar o bendecir algo (M), bendición (Z) [(2)Zp.19,216]. See TEŌCHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)