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tlahuanaltia.

Headword: 
tlahuanaltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to intoxicate someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlāhuānaltiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwɑːnɑltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀHUĀNALTIĀ vt to intoxicate someone / le emborracho, le doy de beber (C for first pers. sg. subject), lo emborracha, lo embriaga (T) [(1)Cf.61v, (4)Tp.211,240]. T is inconsistent in marking the vowel length of the second syllable. T has the reflex of a long vowel in one of four attestations, and C also marks the vowel long. altern. caus. TLĀHUĀN(A).

TLĀHUĀNALTILIĀ applic. TLĀHUĀNALTIĀ.

TLĀHUĀNALTĪLŌ nonact. TLĀHUĀNALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.