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tla.

Headword: 
tla.
Principal English Translation: 

may, let, if, used with the optative of verbs instead of mā for maximum politeness; and xi- (imperative) = "please"; a polite way of phrasing the imperative

something; conjunction

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), 235.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀ introductory particle for clauses expressing wishes, commands, admonitions; negative form: TLĀCA –TLĀCAMŌ let it be that / particular que se junta al imperative y al optativo; indica mas cortesía, mas insistencia que ma (S) TLĀ may substitute for MĀ as a clause introductory particle and conveys greater courtesy and deference. T and Z have TLA- ‘if should it be that, perhaps’, which can be identified both with this and with INTLĀ ‘if’, which is abundantly attested in B and C. See MĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 250.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

particle. 235

Attestations from sources in English: 

1) optitive: like ma, to express desire (let), but with more of an element of chance, hope
2) imperative: precedes the command sometimes
3) conditional: in this form it is really yntla or intla (if), that sometimes has lost the -in or -yn
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.