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tlatolhuilax.

Headword: 
tlatolhuilax.
Principal English Translation: 

a word dragger, a person who is slow in speaking

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 110–111.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition