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tzahualli.

Headword: 
tzahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.