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tlathuiltia.

Headword: 
tlathuiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

for someone (God) to cause someone to feel a certain way on rising in the morning.
to feel a certain way on awakening in the morning

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), 238.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtwiltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATHUILTIĀ The applicative of this used reflexively constitutes a reverential morning greeting in B. Once in seven attestations B marks the vowel of the second syllable long. altern. caus. TLATHUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296–297.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 3: ōnictlathuiltih. causative of tlathui.
nino. causative reverential of tlathui.
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), 238.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)
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