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tlatlacalhuia.

Headword: 
tlatlacalhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to offend, mimic, mock, and damage someone (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːtɬɑkɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlacalhuia. nite. (pret. onitetlatlacalhui.) ofender y dañar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 136v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀTLACALHUIĀ vt to mimic someone, to mock someone / lo imita burlándose (T) [(3)Tp.212].

TLĀTLACALHUILIĀ applic. TLĀTLACALHUIĀ.

TLĀTLACALHUĪLŌ nonact. TLĀTLACALHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 297.