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naltlachiya.

Headword: 
naltlachiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to gaze from afar (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāltlachiya
IPAspelling: 
nɑːltɬɑtʃiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀLTLACHIY(A) to gaze from afar / mira (para afuera, a otro lado) (Z) [(2)Zp.85,176]. M has the longer form nalquizcatlachia 'to see completely, to observe, to take notice.' In both attestations in Z, CHIY(A) has been reduced to CHA, once with the vowel marked long. See NĀL-, CHIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 158.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nal. y Nalco. no se halla sino con este nombre, atl. analco. aunque si, en composicion. v.g. nalquiça. naltona. Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocabulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones que en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 11r.