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tlatilanalli.

Headword: 
tlatilanalli.
Principal English Translation: 

"something dragged along," usually referring to a subdivision of an altepetl; in Spanish translation, sujeto
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 56–7.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan guartiatin mochi hualaque ynic nochi ytlatilanal = todos los guardianes con todas sus visitas (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 370–371.

ý tlatilanalli oqui macehuaya noce canpa oquí cualytaya: y huan y ni n nahuatil. ynnetlaliloca, hic o hueyataque = In tlatila:nalli o:quimma:ce:huaya, noceh ca:mpa o:quicualytaya, i:hua:n in i:nnahuatil, in netla:liloca, i:c o:hueyataqueh = They peopled the territory, or where it looked good, and their law was that it could be settled if they grew.
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 44.

ȏ=mozetililique ynoccequintin tlati la naltín. ye-híco, âltepemá taque nohuíanpa. tlaltecpá = o:moce:tiliqueh in oc cequi:ntin tlatila:naltin ye i:c o:a:ltepe:mataqueh no:huiya:npa tla:ltecpan = they united themselves with the rest of the provinces when they established cities everywhere as royal lands [Note: this possible meaning as province or territory is something to watch.]
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 43.

itlatilanal yn altepetl tolocan = a subdivision of the altepetl of Toluca [Note: This example comes from the Techialoyan group, from the manuscript related to San Pablo Huyxoapan, and therefore it may be a late neologism for sujeto.]
British Museum, Museum of Mankind, Department of Ethnography, Add. Ms. 22070 A & B.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nochi itlatilanal ytech pohui ynin tlahtocaaltepetl Tlaxcallan = todos los sujetos pertenecientes a la cabecera de Tlaxcala
(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 684-685.

yhuan guartiatin mochi hualaque ynic nochi ylatilanal = todos los guardianes con todas sus visitas (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 370–371.

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