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tlancuaitl.

Headword: 
tlancuaitl.
Principal English Translation: 

knee (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlancuāitl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnkwɑːitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANCUĀ(I)-TL knee / la rodilla de la pierna (M) The constituent structure is not clear. It appears to consist of CUĀ(I)-TL ‘head’ and either –TLAN or truncation of –TLANI ‘below.’ TLANCUĀ(I)-TL ‘knee’ appears to be related to TLANĪTZ-TLI ‘shinbone.’ X has apparently metathesized this, as it appears in a compound and a derived noun as TLACUĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 284.