tlayacatiticac.

Headword:

tlayacatiticac.

Principal English Translation:

the first of those people who are standing in a line or standing in order (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

tlayacatticac

IPAspelling:

tɬɑjɑkɑtihtihkɑk

Alonso de Molina:

tlayacatiticac. el primero delos que estan por orden en pie.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 120v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

See also tlayacatticac.

The -titicac on the end of this word is a common thread linking it (and words like it, e.g. see Siméon) to the meaning of standing, and differentiating those words that end -titica, which relate to sitting.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

tlayacattiticac = el primero; tlaoncayotiticac = el segundo; tlayecayotiticac = el tercero; tlanuhcayotiticac = el cuarto; tlamacuilcayotiticac = el quinto; tlamatlaccayotiticac = el décimo; etc.
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), L.

themes:

Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)