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tlamalo.

Headword: 
tlamalo.
Principal English Translation: 

there is a taking of captives; captives are taken

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
R. Joe Campbell, Florentine Codex Vocabulary, 1997, http://www2.potsdam.edu/schwaljf/Nahuatl/florent.txt

Attestations from sources in English: 

necoccampa tlamalo, necoccampa micoa = there were deaths and captives taken on both sides
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 218.