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tlatlaxtli.

Headword: 
tlatlaxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

an aborted child (see Molina 1555); something thrown down or dropped by someone; or, plowed and cultivated soil (see Molina 1571)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑːʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlaxtli. cosa arronjada, o que sele cayo a alguno, o tierra arada y labrada, o criatura abortada y echada asabiendas.
71m2-140r. col. 1. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

abortada criatura assi [procurandolo]. tlatlaxtli.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1v.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATLĀX-TLI something cast or hurled down, something rejected, aborted, plowed under (of land) / cosa arrojada o que se le cayó a alguno, o tierra arada y labrada, o criatura abortada y echada a sabiendas (M) [(1)Cf.47r]. C and M also have the variant TLATLĀZ-TLI, and moreover, this is synonymous with TLATLĀZAL-LI. See TLĀZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 299.

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