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tlayolehualiztli.

Headword: 
tlayolehualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

an invitation; or, the incitement or provocation of someone (see Karttunen, and by extension, Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayōlēhualiztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑyoːleːwɑlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAYŌLĒHUALIZ-TLI invitation / invitación (Z) [(2)Zp.72,218]. M has teyoleualiztli with the somewhat different gloss ‘the incitement or provocation of someone.’ See YŌLĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 305.