nearly daylight, close to dawn (see Molina and Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlathuinauac
IPAspelling:
tɬɑtwinɑːwɑk
Alonso de Molina:
tlathuinauac. cerca del alua. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 136v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TLATHUINĀHUAC close to dawn / cerca del alba (M) [(1)Cf.109r]. See TLATHUI,-NĀHUAC. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 297.