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tlatlaza.

Headword: 
tlatlaza.
Principal English Translation: 

to throw or throw out something wherever; or for a bird to lay an egg (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlaza. ni. (pret. onitlatlaz.) echar o arronjar algo por ay, o poner hueuo el aue.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 136v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

See also: 
tlaza.