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tlaxcalhuia.

Headword: 
tlaxcalhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make tortillas for someone (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃkɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaxcalhuia. nite. (pret. onitetlaxcalhui.) hazer tortillas de mayz para otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAXCALHUIĀ vt to make tortillas for someone / hacer tortillas de maíz para otro (M) [(3)Tp.192]. applic. TLAXCALOĀ.

TLAXCALHUILIĀ applic. TLAXCALHUIĀ.

TLAXCALHUĪLŌ nonact. TLAXCALHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 302.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking