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.