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tlanahualli.

Headword: 
tlanahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

armful (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanāhualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnɑːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĀHUAL-LI armful / brazado (Z), brazada (Z) [(2)Zp.21,211]. Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long in both attestations, but it probably should not be. See NĀHUAHTEQU(I), NĀHUALAHCI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 283.