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tlecoltia.

Headword: 
tlecoltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take something up, to raise something up (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬehkoːltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlecoltia. nitla. (pret. onitlatlecolti.) subir alguna cosa arriba.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLEHCŌLTIĀ vt to raise something / subir alguna cosa arriba (M) [(2)Zp.118,196, (3)Xp.77]. caus. TLEHCŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 307.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"...omotlecolti to tlasonantzin de guadalupe tepeticpac" = "our Beloved Mother Guadalupe was taken up to the top of the mountain" (this was mentioned in the annals for the year 1653)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 4, p. , Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.