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tlalpan.

Headword: 
tlalpan.
Principal English Translation: 

on or to the ground, throughout the country

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 237.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlpɑn
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalpan. enel suelo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLPAN on the ground, throughout the land / en el suelo (M), por toda la tierra (C). See TLĀL-LI, -PAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 276.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

complex relational word. 237