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tetlacualti.

Headword:

tetlacualti.

Principal English Translation:

servant that serves at the table (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

tetlaqualti

Alonso de Molina:

tetlaqualti. paje o ministro que sirue ala mesa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 109r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

itlanecahuan ytetlaqualticahuan = sus criados y paniaguados (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 508–509.