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-tenco.

Headword: 
-tenco.
Principal English Translation: 

at the edge, side, next to

IPAspelling: 
-teːnko
Frances Karttunen: 

-TĒNCO compound postposition at the edge of something / su orilla (T for third pers. sg. possessor) See TĒN-TLI, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 224.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ohtenco = at the edge of the road

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tianquiztenco = lugar a la orilla del mercado
tlaltenco = lugar a la orilla de la tierra
atenco = lugar a la orilla del agua
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.