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tlatzomaloni.

Headword: 
tlatzomaloni.
Principal English Translation: 

needle (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtzomalōni
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtsomɑloːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTZOMALŌNI needle / aguja (Z) [(2)Zp.7,208]. Z is inconsistent. In one attestation the vowels of the second, third, and fourth syllables are marked long, and in the other the vowels of the third and fourth. By general rules of derivation only the vowel of the fourth syllable should be long. See TLAHTZOM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 267.