tlatolpeuhcayotl.

Headword: 
tlatolpeuhcayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

the beginning of a talk, sermon, or an account' (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlatolpeuhcayotl. comienzo o introduction de platica o de sermon o principio e introduction de sermon o de platica.
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: 

tlatolpeuhcayotl = beginning of the account (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 64–65.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Writing, Literacy