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tlatlalilli.

Headword: 
tlatlalilli.
Principal English Translation: 

that which is established, has been issued, ordered (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart); or, someone who had been detained (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑːliːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlalilli. cosa industriada y fabricada, o cosa establecida y ordenada, o persona detenida de otros en algun lugar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 138r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATLĀLĪL-LI something arranged, ordered, established / cosa industriada y fabricada o cosa establecida o ordenada (M), ramillete, plazo (T) [(1)Tp.236]. See TLĀLIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 298.

Attestations from sources in English: 

totlatlalil = what we have issued or ordered
James Lockhart, personal communication, December 19, 2007.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents
Politics, Power, Governance