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tlamat-.

Headword: 
tlamat-.
Principal English Translation: 

to be quiet

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), 237.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

form of a main verb used with -ti auxiliaries. related to mati? 237

Attestations from sources in English: 

xiccava ça xitlamatinemi Auh intlanoço oticchiuh ximotlacavalti ximilochti ximocuitivetzin = stomp; go calmly. And if, perhaps, you have done this, stop; draw back; turn back (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 240.