Contraction?

[Doug Barr]

I've been going through *Rules of the Aztec Language* and referring  
to the wonderful website http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/ - since  
the book doesn't translate any of its words, just gives the forms -  
and I found this example sentence "Tla: quimocaquitin tla:catl,"  
translated as "Que le seigneur daigne nous entendre," "May the lord  
deign to hear us."

My main question is, does this represent "Tla: quimocaquiti in  
tla:catl," with the optative, and the determinative "in" shorn of its  
vowel and added to "quimocaquiti"? I'm also curious about the  
translation given as "hear *us*," vs. the Na:huatl singular object  
prefix and singular noun "tla:catl." Is this a Na:huatl stylistic thing?

Tlazohcamati...
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