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tlaltitechya.

Headword: 
tlaltitechya.
Principal English Translation: 

to fall to the ground (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlāltitechyā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltitetʃyɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLTITECHYĀ irregular verb; singular present: -YAUH to fall to the ground / caerse o ir el edificio por tierra (M) [(1)Cf.102r]. M has the component tlaltitech ‘on the ground, to the ground.’ See TLĀL-LI, -TECH, the verb YĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.