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tlatolchia.

Headword: 
tlatolchia.
Principal English Translation: 

to await someone's order (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatolchiya
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatolchia. nite. (pret. onitetlatolchix.) esperar mandato de otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 141r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn oncan (or: yn ompa) nicnotlatolchielilia yn dios (or: totecuio) = a formula used to referring to the househhold. (See The Nahuas, page 60, note 6: "an alternative phrase for the dwellling place with implication of "household" is "where we await the order of our lord God," and where we will obey the order of our lord God.)
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl classes with James Lockhart, being harvested for this dictionary by Stephanie Wood.