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tlalomiton.

Headword: 
tlalomiton.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of worm (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālomītōn
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlomiːtoːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLOMĪTŌN a type of worm / gusano de alambre, tlalomite (T) [(1)Tp.240]. The second element of this suggests OMI-TL ‘bone,’ but there is a vowel length discrepancy. See TLĀL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 276.