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telicza.

Headword: 
telicza.
Principal English Translation: 

to kick

Orthographic Variants: 
telicça
IPAspelling: 
teliksɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

telicza. nite. (pret. oniteteliczac.) dar de coces a otro, o tirar coz.
telicza. nitla. (pret. onitlateliczac.) tirar coz.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TELICZA vt to kick something, someone / dar de coces a otro o tirar coz (M).

TELICZŌ altern. nonact. TELICZA.

TELICZŌ altern. nonact. TELICZA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 1: ōnictelicçac. 233
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 233.

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