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tlaixco.

Headword: 
tlaixco.
Principal English Translation: 

on the surface, or on the front (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑiːʃko
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaixco. enla sobrehaz, o en la delantera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 122v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAĪXCO on the surface, in the front / en la sobrehaz, o en la delantera (M) [(1)Cf.21r]. M and C both have this in construction with the verb CĀ with the sense of ‘on top, first out.’ See –ĪXCO.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 272.