tlatlalantli.

Headword: 
tlatlalantli.
Principal English Translation: 

an open ditch (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑːlɑːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlalantli. çanja abierta assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 137v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlatlālāntli = ditches or trenches for the foundations (of calli, for example)
Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 149.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings