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tlaixpan.

Headword: 
tlaixpan.
Principal English Translation: 

right in front (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑiːʃpɑn
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaixpan. en la delantera de alguna cosa. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAĪXPAN before, in front of / en la delantera de alguna cosa (M), en frente (T) [(1)Tp.230, (3)Zp.5,51,207]. See –ĪXPAN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 273.

Attestations from sources in English: 

temimiltitlan tlamellauhyan tlayxpan = next to the stone pillars, right in front (early seventeenth century, central New Spain) Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 46–47. tlaixpan = right in front of the entryway door (a place requested for burial, speaking of the church door) Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 148.