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tlayeloa.

Headword: 
tlayeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to soil something or get it dirty (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaeloa
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhyeloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayeloa. nitla. (pret. onitlatlayelo.) ensuziar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 121r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHYELOĀ vt to soil something / ensuciar algo (M) [(1)Rp.149]. R places the diacritic on the wrong syllable. It appears on the second, but it belongs on the first. See TLAHYEL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 271.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
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