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tlacaitta.

Headword: 
tlacaitta.
Principal English Translation: 

to consider someone a human being, to acknowledge, tolerate, accept, or admit someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācaitta
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑittɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAITTA vt to consider someone a human being, to acknowledge, tolerate, accept, or admit someone / te miramos… como a hombre (C for first pers. plural subject, second pers. singular object), le permite entrar, le consiente, lo admite (T) [(1)Cf.119r,(3)Tp.211]. M has derivations from this involving hypocrisy and deception. See TLĀCA-TL, (I)TTA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.