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tlatziuh.

Headword: 
tlatziuh.
Principal English Translation: 

someone idle, lazy, slothful (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsiw
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZIUH someone idle, lazy, slothful / haragán, flojo, zonzo, zoquete (Z) [(3)Zp.66,132,217]. See TLATZIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 301.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ayac tlatziuhtinemiz = no one lives [or, is to live] in idleness (Codex Osuna, 1565)
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 342.