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tliltica.

Headword: 
tliltica.
Principal English Translation: 

blackness (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
tɬiːltikɑ
Attestations from sources in English: 

quiquixtia, yn icatzahuaca, yn tliltica = removes the dirt and blackness
Andrés Sáenz de la Peña, Manual de los Santo Sacramentos, 1643, f. 34r.; translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix E, 12.