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tlacuilohouilia.

Headword: 
tlacuilohouilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to reply to someone in writing (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahcuilohhouiliā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhkwilohhouiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHCUILOHHOUILIĀ vt to reply to someone in writing / le contesta por escrito (Z) [(2)Zp.33,195]. The glottal stop of the third syllable is not attested, and the vowel before it is unmarked for length. If there is no glottal stop, then the O should be long. See TLAHCUILOH, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 261.

themes: 
Writing, Literacy