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tlalmaca.

Headword: 
tlalmaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to give or distribute land

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlmɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLMACA vt to give someone land / le da tierra (T) [(3)Tp.211]. See TLĀL-LI, MACA.TLĀLMAQUILIĀ applic. TLĀLMACA.TLĀLMACALŌ nonact. TLĀLMACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 275.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn iancuican tetlalmacoc = when land was newly assigned to people (Atenantitlan, 1554)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 9, 86–87.

otitlalmacoque = we were given lands
Byron McAfee, translation of the Techialoyan manuscript from Santa Mara Zolotepec or Ocelotepec; University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

otitlalmacoque = nos fueron entregadas tierras
Anneliese Monnich, "El Altepeamatl de Ocoyacac, México," Indiana 2 (1974), 168.

themes: 
Land Tenure