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tlamachtilli.

Headword: 
tlamachtilli.
Principal English Translation: 

follower, student, disciple (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamachtīlli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑtʃtiːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamachtilli. discipulo, o el que es enseñado de otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMACHTĪL-LI pl: TIN – MEH follower, student, disciple / discipulo o el que es enseñado de otro (M) See MACHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 279.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlamachtilli = discipulo
Joseph Augustin de Aldama y Guevara, Arte de la lengua mexicana (Mexico: BIbliotheca Mexicana, 1754), 29.

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