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tlatlaitlani.

Headword: 
tlatlaitlani.
Principal English Translation: 

to beg (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtlaihtlani
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑihtɬɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLAIHTLAN(I) vrefl to beg / mendigar (K) [(1)Tp.159]. This is indirectly attested in T’s nominalization MOTLAHTLAIHTLANI ‘beggar.’ M has reflexive tlaitlania and, in the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side only, the reduplicated form, both meaning ‘to beg.’ This distributive form reduplicates the fused prefix TLA- rather than the verb stem itself. See IHTLAN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 264.