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tlazotia.

Headword: 
tlazotia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make precious

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaçotia
Attestations from sources in English: 

huellaçotic = became expensive; tlaçotic = made precious, expensive Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

opeuhqui tlaçoti tlacuatlzintli = food began to get more expensive
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 154–155.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yn occequi yc ninotlaçotillitiuh = y lo demás se lo agradezco
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Santa Bárbara, Ocotelulco, Tlaxcala, 1588), 324–325.