to hiss, to make a sound with one’s tongue against the back of (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlantzopōniā
IPAspelling:
tɬɑntsopoːniɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TLANTZOPŌNIĀ vrefl to hiss, to make a sound with one’s tongue against the back of one’s teeth / truena la boca (dice Tz. Tz.) (T) [(3)Tp.160]. See TLAN-TLI, TZOPŌNIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 286.