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tzontlami.

Headword: 
tzontlami.
Principal English Translation: 

to come to an end (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsontɬɑmi
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONTLAM(I) pret; -TLAN to come to an end / extremo, termino (Z for phrase) [(5)Zp.58,121,144,227]. This is attested in the phrase CĀMPA TZONTLAMI ‘end, terminus,’ literally ‘at the place where it ends.’ See TZON-TLI, TLAM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 318.