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amantli.

Headword: 
amantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a place where water collects (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āmantli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑntɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMAN-TLI place where collects / arroyo, laguna (X)[(3)Xp.26]. X fails to mark the initial vowel long. See ĀMAN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 10.

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