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chantlalia.

Headword: 
chantlalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to set up housekeeping; establish a home

IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːntɬɑːliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀNTLĀLIĀ vrefl to set up housekeeping / hace hogar (T) [(3)Tp.149]. See CHĀN-TLI, TLĀLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 46.

Attestations from sources in English: 

velasco quimonequiltiyaya in tlaxcalteca ōtzōtly ōmatlactecpātly namiquihqui ōpa mochātlalizqz ȳ chichimecatlalpā = Velasco wanted a thousand married Tlaxcalans to establish their homes in Chichimeca country. (Tlaxcala, 1560)
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), 192.