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tlecuiltia.

Headword: 
tlecuiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to set something afire, to light something
(see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlecuīltiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬekwiːltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLECUĪLTIĀ vt to set something afire, to light something / prender (fuego, lumbre, vela, luz) [(3)Xp.77]. See TLE-TL, CUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 307.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlecuiltia in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).