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netlazotlaliztli.

Headword: 
netlazotlaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

charity (a neologism); love

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 251.

Orthographic Variants: 
netlazohtlaliztli
IPAspelling: 
netɬɑsohtɬɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

netlazotlaliztli. amor conque algunos se aman, o amor proprio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 70r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NETLAZOHTLALIZ-TLI love of people for one another or of someone for himself / amor con que algunos se aman, o amor propio (M), estimación (Z) [(2)Zp.57,178]. M contrasts this with netlacotiliztli 'exaggeration of worth'. See TLAZOHTLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 170.

themes: 
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