Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tlaiuhtica.

Headword: 
tlaiuhtica.
Principal English Translation: 

for there to be no one around, for a place to be deserted (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaīuhticah
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑiːwtikɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAĪUHTICAH for there to be no one around, for a place to be deserted / no hay gente (T) [(1)Tp.230]. M has ça iuhticac ‘vacant house’ and under words for ‘vacant’ on the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side several other constructions with the sequence iuhti. If this is derived from IHU(I) ‘to be or become in a certain way,’ the vowel of the second syllable should be short, but T has it long. See IHU(I), the verb CĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 272.