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tlatequiliztli.

Headword: 
tlatequiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of cutting something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatequiliztli. el acto de cortar alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 135v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATEQUILIZ-TLI the act of cutting something / el acto de cortar alguna cosa (M) [(1)Zp.215]. See TEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.