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tlatlachia.

Headword: 
tlatlachia.
Principal English Translation: 

to go see; or, to look at something often (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlachia. non. (pret. onontlatlachix.) yr aver, o mirar amenudo alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 137r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

mixco tlatlachia in teci cioa = They passed among the grinding women. (Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 126.

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