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tlatequipanoliztica.

Headword: 
tlatequipanoliztica.
Principal English Translation: 

through working, or building something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekipɑnoːlistikɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatequipanoliztica. trabajando, o haziendo alguna obra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 136r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATEQUIPANŌLIZTICA by means of labor / con… trabajo (C)[(1)Cf.49r]. This conventionally pairs with CIAHUIZTICA ‘by fatigue’ both in possessed form, the sense of the phrase being equivalent to the English phrase ‘by the sweat of one’s brow.’ See TLATEQUIPANŌLIZ-TLI, -CA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns