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tlalli zoquitl.

Headword: 
tlalli zoquitl.
Principal English Translation: 

one's earthly body

Orthographic Variants: 
tlallo çoquio, tlalli çoquitl
Horacio Carochi / English: 

tlālli çoquitl, or -tlāllo -çoquiyo = one's earthly body
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 513.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

çoquitl, -yō.
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), 216.