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tlanahualaci.

Headword: 
tlanahualaci.
Principal English Translation: 

to seize things by surprise, to take someone by surprise (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanāhualahci
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnɑːwɑlɑhsi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĀHUALAHCI to seize things by surprise, to take someone by surprise / agarra con sorpresa (T) [(3)Tp.233]. See NĀHUALAHCI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 283.