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tlahuitontli.

Headword: 
tlahuitontli.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlauitontli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwitoːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauitontli. cosa derrocada, desbaratada, o desecha.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUITŌN-TLI something knocked down or undone / cosa derrocada, desbaratada, o desecha (M) [(2)Zp.101,206]. The direct derivational basis of this is M’s vituma ‘to demolish a building or to release dammed up water.’ See TLAHUITŌM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 270.