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tlatoloa.

Headword: 
tlatoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to swallow something or obstruct something (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlatoloa. ni. (pret. onitlatolo.) tragar algo, o entortar alguna cosa
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 141v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aço quatzontecoz, aço ynca tlatoloz = perhaps their forehead hair would be cut or they would be accused (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 230.