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tlatlatolli.

Headword: 
tlatlatolli.
Principal English Translation: 

prolix speech, i.e. long-winded, tediously discursive, desultory, or protracted (see Karttunen); or, proverbs, teachings (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlātlahtōlli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːtɬɑhtoːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀTLAHTŌL-LI prolix speech / palabras prolijas (C) [(2)Cf.73r]. redup. TLAHTŌL-LI
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 298.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlatlatolli = proverbs
Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen, "Las lenguas divinas del México precolonial," Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 38 (1985), 3–14; see page 6.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles