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tlatolchiya.

Headword: 
tlatolchiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to await someone’s order (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtōlchiya
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtoːltʃiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTŌLCHIY(A) pret: TLAHTŌLCHIX-TLAHTŌLCHĪX to await someone’s order / esperar mandato de otro (M) [(1)Bf.4v]. The long vowel preterit form is not directly attested for this, but is abundantly attested for the constituent element CHIY(A). See TLAHTŌL-LI, CHIY(A).

TLAHTŌLCHIYALIĀ applic. TLAHTŌLCHIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 266.

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