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tlalaquia.

Headword: 
tlalaquia.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to get buried; to bury something, to set something in the earth, to plant something (transitive) (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalaquia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlɑkiá
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalaquia. nino. (pret. oninotlalaqui.) enterrarse.
tlalaquia. nite. (pret. onitetlalaqui.) enterrar a otro.
tlalaquia. nitla. (pret. onitlatlalaqui.) soterrar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLAQUIÁ vrefl, vt for something to get buried; to bury something, to set something in the earth, to plant something / enterrarse (M), enterrar a otro (M) See TLĀL-LI, AQUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 273.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlalaquia (verb) = to bury, to inter
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 164.

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