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tlahuehueloliztli.

Headword: 
tlahuehueloliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

destruction (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahuehhuelōliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwehweloːlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUEHHUELŌLIZ-TLI destruction / destrucción (Z) [(2)Zp.44,206]. In one attestation Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long, but it should not be. See HUEHUELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.