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-tlazotlaloca.

Headword: 
-tlazotlaloca.
Principal English Translation: 

the love with which one is loved (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

Orthographic Variants: 
-tlazohtlalōcā
IPAspelling: 
-tɬɑsohtɬɑloːkɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

-TLAZOHTLALŌCĀ necessarily possessed form the love with which one is loved / el amor con que yo soy amado (C for first pers. sg. possesor) [(1)Cf.48v]. This appears in a discussion of the distinction between derivations based on the nonactive form plus -CĀ and requiring a possessive prefix and those based on the active form with -LIZ-TLI, in this case TLAZOHTLALIZ-TLI ‘love toward someone else.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 306.

themes: 
Emotions
Friendship, Affection