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tlanextililiztli.

Headword: 
tlanextililiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

revelation, admonition (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanēxtilīliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑneːʃtiliːlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĒXTILĪLIZ-TLI revelation, admonition / lección, revelación (Z) [(3)Zp.76,110,212]. M has tlanextiliztli ‘clarity, light.’ This implies TLANĒXTILIĀ ‘to illuminate something or someone,’ which appears in M and perhaps as Z’s transitive TLANĒXTIĀ if the latter is a truncated form. See TLANĒXTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 285.