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tlayahua.

Headword: 
tlayahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make circles while dancing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayaua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑjɑwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayaua. ni. (pret. onitlayauh.) hazer ciertos ademanes elque baila o danza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 120v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlayaua (verb) = to make an encircling figure in dancing
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 166.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance