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tlalax.

Headword: 
tlalax.
Principal English Translation: 

small bedbug, mite (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālāx
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlɑːʃ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLĀX-IN pl: -TIN small bedbug, mite / chinche pequeña (M), clalaje (insecto) (T), coruco, pipiol (animalito, insecto) (Z) [(1)Tp.240, (2)Zp.34,208]. The word-final nasal consonant is missing in M. T has the variant singular form TLĀLĀX(A). See TLĀ-LI, ĀX-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 273.