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tlaquintli.

Headword: 
tlaquintli.
Principal English Translation: 

garment (see karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkintɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAQUIN-TLI garment / vestido, traje, abrigo, ropa (T) [(4)Tp.209,235]. This is a variant of TLAQUĒM(I)-TL ~ TLAQUĒN-TLI in T. Although T has possessed forms of TLAQUĒN-TLI with the reflex of a long vowel in the second syllable, it also has short-vowel variants TLAQUEN-TLI and TLAQUIN-TLI. TLAQUINTIĀ is the T variant of derived TLAQUĒNTIĀ See TLAQUĒM(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 294.