tlayeyecalhuia.

Headword:

tlayeyecalhuia.

Principal English Translation:

to rent; or, to copy/pirate/imitate another person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

tlaieiecalhvia

IPAspelling:

tɬɑjehjekɑlwiɑ

Alonso de Molina:

tlayeyecalhuia. nite. (pret. onitetlayeyecalhui.) arrendar, o contrahazer a otro.
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.

Attestations from sources in English:

In the Florentine Codex, Book 6, Chapter 34, we see references to a mother newly delivered of a baby as imitating Cihuacoatl/Quilaztli: â oticmotlaieiecalhvili = Thou hast imitated her. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 34, 185.

themes:

Markets, Commerce, Economy