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tlalochtia.

Headword: 
tlalochtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to drive someone, to make someone run (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalōchtiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑloːtʃtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalochtia. nite. (pret. onitetlalochti.) hazer aguijar a otro llevando asido y haziendolo correr.
tlalochtia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlatlalochti.) arrebatar algo a otro, y dar ahuir conello.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLALŌCHTIĀ vt to drive someone, to make someone run / hacer aguijar a otro, llevando asido y haciéndolo correr (M), lo empuja adelante de uno andando(lo) (como carretilla, etc.), lo arrea, le hace correr (T) [(3)Tp.208, (3)Zp.14,34,195, (3)Xp.75]. See TLALOĀ.

TLALŌCHTILIĀ applic. TLALŌCHTIĀ.

TLALŌCHTĪLŌ nonact. TLALŌCHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 276.