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tlancho.

Headword: 
tlancho.
Principal English Translation: 

marten, sable (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlāncho
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːntʃo
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀNCHO marten, sable / marta (animal) [(2)Zp.82,211]. This is attested with a long vowel in the first syllable, but it seems possible to associate it with TLANCHOĀ ‘to chew,’ especially since Z idiosyncratically has a long vowel in TLAN-TLI ‘tooth.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 283–284.