tlaxeloliztli. | Nahuatl Dictionary

⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tlaxeloliztli.

Headword:

tlaxeloliztli.

Principal English Translation:

the act of dividing and sharing something; or, a division or distribution (see Molina; translation to English here by Stephanie Wood)

IPAspelling:

tɬɑʃeloːlistɬi

Alonso de Molina:

tlaxeloliztli. el acto de diuidir y partir alguna cosa, o partija.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

TLAXELŌLIZ-TLI division, appointment / el acto de dividir y partir alguna cosa o partija (M), separación, división (Z) [(3)Zp.47,115,217]. See XELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 303.