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tecuhtlatoloya.

Headword: 
tecuhtlatoloya.
Principal English Translation: 

judging
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 243-244.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoloia, tecutlatoloya
Attestations from sources in English: 

o.yn muchivaya ynic tecutlatoloya = thus the judging was done (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 243.

Auh inic oppa tecutlatoloia iquac in tlacaxipevaliztli in aya mally yn ayac temalacac quetzaloz = and [also a] second time that there was a judging was at the time of Tlacaxipehualiztli, if there were no captives, if no one were to stand on the stone of gladiatorial sacrifice (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 244.

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