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tlayeltia.

Headword: 
tlayeltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to feel sick about something; or, to suffer nausea or make someone else suffer nausea (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaeltia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhyeltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayeltia. nino. (pret. oninotlayelti.) tener asco de 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: 

TLAHYELTIĀ vrefl, vt to suffer nausea; to make someone suffer nausea / tener asco de alguna cosa sucia (M), poner asco a otro (M) [(1)Bf.12r, (3)Tp.208, (2)Zp.15,195]. See TLAHYEL-LI.

TLAHYELTILIĀ applic. TLAHYELTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 271.