See -tla on Wiktionary
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],
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]
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"text": "icnīuh (“(someone's) friend”) + -tla → icnīuhtla (“to befriend someone”)"
},
{
"text": "yāōtl (“enemy”) + -tla → yāōtla (“to wage war to someone”)"
},
{
"text": "tlazohtli (“(something) precious, valuable, rare”) + -tla → tlazohtla (“to love”)"
}
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"A rare, non-productive transitive verbal suffix that attaches to nominal stems and forms verbs with an apparent meaning of \"to consider as X\", \"to deem X\", \"to act as if something is X\"."
],
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"place containing"
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"-tla",
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},
{
"text": "yāōtl (“enemy”) + -tla → yāōtla (“to wage war to someone”)"
},
{
"text": "tlazohtli (“(something) precious, valuable, rare”) + -tla → tlazohtla (“to love”)"
}
],
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