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tlatzomalli.

Headword: 
tlatzomalli.
Principal English Translation: 

something sewn (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtzomalli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtsomɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTZOMAL-LI something sewn / cosido (Z) [(2)Zp.34,208]. Z is inconsistent. In one attestation the vowels of the second and third syllables are marked long, and in the other they are not. By general rules of derivation, all vowels in this item should be short. See (I)HTZOM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 267.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ytlatzomalcal = son casas de paja (Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 196.