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tlaceceltia.

Headword: 
tlaceceltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to beg someone’s pardon, to calm someone, to cool someone’s emotions (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaceceltiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑseseltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACECELTIĀ vt to beg someone’s pardon, to calm someone, to cool someone’s emotions / se le pide disculpas, se le ofrece algo para calme… lo convence (T)[(3)Tp.209]. See CECELIĀ.

TLACECELTILIĀ applic. TLACECELTIĀ.

TLACECELTĪLŌ nonact. TLACECELTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.