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-tentlan.

Headword: 
-tentlan.
Principal English Translation: 

before someone's lips (compound post-position) (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-tēntlan
IPAspelling: 
-teːntɬɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

–TĒNTLAN compound postposition before someone's lips / por delante de ... nuestros labios (C for first pers. plural possessor) [(1)Cf.21v]. See TĒN-TLI, -TLAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 226.

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See also: 
tentli.
-tlan.