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tlatlama.

Headword: 
tlatlama.
Principal English Translation: 

to hunt or fish, or to take captives in war (see Karttunen); to fish with nets (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑmɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlama. ni. (pret. onitlatlama.) pescar, o cazar algo con redes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 138r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLAMĀ pret: TLAHTLAMAH to hunt or fish, to take captives in war / pescar o cazar algo con redes (M), cazar o cautivar en la guerra (C) [(2)Cf.64v,(4)Tp.231]. This distributive form reduplicates the fused prefix TLA- rather than the verb stem itself. See TLAMĀ.

TLAHTLAMĀLŌ nonact. TLAHTLAMĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 264.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlatlama in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

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