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tleic.

Headword: 
tleic.
Principal English Translation: 

what, what with, why

Orthographic Variants: 
tle ic, tleyc, tle yc
IPAspelling: 
tɬeik
Alonso de Molina: 

Tleic? aque, o paraque?
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 147r.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLEIC, TLEĪCA to what end? why? / ¿a qué? o ¿para qué? (M), ¿por qué? (M), ¿de qué provecho? (C) [(2)Cf.113r]. C does not mark the I long in either of two attestations of TLEĪC. According to C TLEĪC is used only with the verb ĀY(I) ‘to do something.’ See TLE(H), ĪC, ĪCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 307.