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ixtlahuacan.

Headword: 
ixtlahuacan.
Principal English Translation: 

plain or plains, unpopulated flat land

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 222.

Orthographic Variants: 
ixtlauaca, ixtlahuaca
IPAspelling: 
iːʃtɬɑːwɑkɑːn
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

locative noun. ixtlāhua, probably a verb meaning to be flat, -cān. 222

themes: 
Landscape Features