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tlacaquiltia.

Headword: 
tlacaquiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a complaint to someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacaquiltiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkɑkiltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACAQUILTIĀ vt to make a complaint to someone / regaña, lo hace sentir todas las cosas (Z) [(1)Zp.194]. In the single attestation the vowel of the third vowel is marked long, although by general rule it should be short. Caus. TLACAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.

themes: 
Protest, Resistance