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altepetlalia.

Headword: 
altepetlalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to populate or to found a town or pueblo; to rebel against a cabecera or head town of a district (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːltepeːtɬɑːliɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

altepetlalia. nin. (pret. oninaltepetlali.) reuelarse contra la cabecera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

altepetlalia. n. (pret. onaltepetlali.) poblar o fundar villa o pueblo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

No yvan nitlanavatiya yn ixquichtin quauhtinchantlaca mocenquixtizque maltepetlalizque oncan yn canin qualittas corregidor yvan in guardian quauhtinchan mocaltizque yevatl yn tlapantli yn quimochivilizque = También ordeno a todos los habitantes de Cuauhtinchan que se reúnan, que formen su pueblo allí donde apruebe el corregidor y el guardián de Cuauhtinchan. Harán sus casas, se las construirán de azotea (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 284–285.

themes: 
Origins (human, ethnic, towns)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods