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tlaxilia.

Headword: 
tlaxilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to throw at or to (applicative of tlāça)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːʃiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀXILIĀ vrefl,vt to abort, to cast something off; to throw something away from someone, to cause someone to abort / abortar, deshacerse de algo, dimitar de un cargo (S), hacer abortar a una mujer (S) applic. TLĀZ(A). TLĀXILILIĀ applic. TLĀXILIĀ. TLĀXILĪLŌ nonact. TLĀXILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 303.