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tlehuatza.

Headword: 
tlehuatza.
Principal English Translation: 

to broil

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

Orthographic Variants: 
tleuatza
IPAspelling: 
tɬewɑːtsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tleuatza. nitla. (pret. onitlatleuatz.) asar algo en asador o en parrillae.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLEHUĀTZ(A) vrefl,vt se asa, se tuesta (tortilla, carne), (T), asar algo en asador o en parrilla (M) See TLE-TL, HUĀTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 307.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 2: ōnictlehuātz. tletl, huātza to dry something out.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.