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tehuicaltia.

Headword: 
tehuicaltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to follow or imitate what others are doing; a metaphor; or, to convince others to take you with them (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
teuicaltia
Alonso de Molina: 

teuicaltia. nino. (pret. oninoteuicalti.) seguir, o imitar al vulgo, haziendo loque los otros hazen. metaphora. o hazer y procurar que otros me lleuen consigo ensu compañia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles