-tlayecoltiloca.

Headword:

-tlayecoltiloca.

Principal English Translation:

service of someone, performed for someone (a necessarily possessed form)
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.

Orthographic Variants:

-tlaecoltiloca

IPAspelling:

-tɬɑyekoltiloːkɑ

Frances Karttunen:

-TLAYECOLTILŌCA necessarily possessed form the service of someone / servicio de alguien (K) [(1)Bf.3r]. See TLAYECOLTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 304.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

final ā is probably long when anything follows. passive abstract deverbal noun from tlayecoltia.
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.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

tlayecoltiloca = servicio
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvii.

itlaecoltilocatzin = el servicio (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 252–253.

themes:

Labor, Work, Labor Concerns

Tributes, Taxation, Service