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tlahuicaliztli.

Headword: 
tlahuicaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a debt (see Karttunen); also relates to the leadership of the community (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahuīcaliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwiːkɑlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUĪCALIZ-TLI debt / deuda (Z) [(2)Zp.45,206]. See HUĪCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 270.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn tlatocayotl ytech otiquiz yn mitzcahuilitia in motta yn mocol aocmo tiquitta yn tlahuicaliztli yn altepeyotl yn altepepializtli in tlapacholiztli / fiscal P[edr]o de San Nicolas = procedes del señorío, te lo heredó tu padre, tu abuelo; ya no entiendes en conducir lo del altepetl: el cuidar el pueblo [altepepializtli], el gobierno [tlapacholiztli]. Fiscal Pedro de San Nicolás. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 180.