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tlazaltia.

Headword: 
tlazaltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to force someone to give something up (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːsɑltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlazaltia. nicte. (pret. onictetlazalti.) hazer dexar algo a otro por fuerza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀZALTIĀ vt to force someone to give something up / hacer dejar algo a otro con fuerza (M) [(1)Cf.62r]. caus. TLĀZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 306.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment