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tlahueca.

Headword: 
tlahueca.
Principal English Translation: 

something spacious, roomy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahuehca
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwehkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUEHCA something spacious, roomy / amplio, espacio (T) [(1)Tp.228]. Z has TLAHUĒICA with virtually the same sense. See HUEHCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.