spider’s web (see Karttunen); literally, a spun thing
Orthographic Variants:
tzāhualli
IPAspelling:
tsɑːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen:
TZĀHUAL-LI spider’s web / tela de araña, telaraña (Z) [(2)Zp.120,225]. Z inverts the vowel length values in one attestation, and marks both vowels long in the other. See TZĀHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 310.