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tlatzini.

Headword: 
tlatzini.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsiːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzini. sonar algo rebentando, assi como hueuo quando lo asan, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 143r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZĪN(I) to make an explosive sound, to thunder, to sizzle / sonar algo reventado así como huevo cuando lo asan o cosa semejante (M), truena (Z) [(1)Zp.217]. Z also has impersonal TLATLATZĪN(I) with the sense ‘to thunder’.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 301.