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tlatzmolini.

Headword: 
tlatzmolini.
Principal English Translation: 

things turning green, blossoming (impersonal of iztmolini)

Huehuehtlahtolli. Testimonios de la antigua palabra, ed. Librado Silva Galeana y un estudio introductorio por Miguel León-Portilla (México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991), 70–71.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatzmolîni
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsmoliːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZMOLĪN(I) for everything to sprout anew / todo retoñece (C) [(1)Cf.36v] See (I)TZMOLĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 302.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ca tlacelia, tlatzmolini, tlaxiloti, tlamiyahuati in tlaticpac = Porque hay verdor, retoños, hay brotes de maíz, espiguea, en la tierra
Huehuehtlahtolli. Testimonios de la antigua palabra, ed. Librado Silva Galeana y un estudio introductorio por Miguel León-Portilla (México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991), 70–71.

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