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nechachalaniliztli.

Headword: 
nechachalaniliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

contention, a struggle, a fight, strife (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

nechachalaniliztli. contienda, brega, o porfia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 64v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yntlatlacol in nechachalaniliztli = la culpa del pleito, la denuncia (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 262–263.

themes: 
War, Conflict