tlayelitta.

Headword: 
tlayelitta.
Principal English Translation: 

to abhor someone; or, to look upon someone with anger (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaelitta
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhyelittɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayelitta. nite. (pret. onitetlayelittac.) aborrecer a otro, o mirarle con enojo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 121r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHYELITTA vt to hate someone or something / aborrecer a otro (M), lo aborrece, lo odia (T) [(3)Tp.208]. See TLAHYEL-LI, (I)TTA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 271.

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