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tlatlaztli.

Headword: 
tlatlaztli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑːstɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlaztli. cosa arronjada por ay, o cosa que sele cayo a alguno, o criatura abortada y echada voluntariosamente.
71m2-140r. col. 2. 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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATLĀZ-TLI something cast or hurled down, something rejected, aborted, or plowed under (of land) / cosa arrojada por hay o cosa que se le cayó a alguno o criatura abortada y echada voluntariosamente (M) [(1)Cf.47r]. C and M also have the variant TLATLĀX-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.