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tlanecitia.

Headword: 
tlanecitia.
Principal English Translation: 

for dawn to break (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanēcitiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑneːsitiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĒCITIĀ for dawn to break / alba (Z in construction with QUĒMMAN ‘when’) [(3)Zp.8,211]. This seems to be idiosyncratic to Z, which also has TLANĒXTIĀ ‘to shine.’ See TLANĒC(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 284.

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Time, Calendar, Frequency