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-tzontlan.

Headword: 
-tzontlan.
Principal English Translation: 

compound postposition at the head of one’s bed (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
-tsontɬɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

-TZONTLAN compound postposition at the head of one’s bed / a la cabecera de la cama (M) [(1)Cf.96v]. See TZON-TLI, -TLAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 318.