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tlacza.

Headword: 
tlacza.
Principal English Translation: 

to go quickly, or to run (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑksɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacza. ni. (pret. onitlaczac.) yr muy de priessa o correr.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACZA to move fast, to run / ir muy de priesa o correr (M). This is implied by the derived form TLACZALIZ-TLI. See ICZA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 259.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlacza in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).