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tlaelitta.

Headword: 
tlaelitta.
Principal English Translation: 

to look down upon, or view with anger or disgust

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 231.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayeltitlan
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑelittɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaelitta. nite. (pret. onitetlaelittac.) aborrecer a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 120r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

amo quitlayelitas y mostla huiptla = he is not to abhor him in the future (San Antonio de Padua, Toluca Valley, 1737)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 233.

themes: 
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