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-tlatequiyan.

Headword: 
-tlatequiyan.
Principal English Translation: 

the cutting edge of something (see Karttunen), a necessarily possessed form

Orthographic Variants: 
-tlatequiyān
IPAspelling: 
-tɬɑtekiyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-TLATEQUIYĀN necessarily possessed form the cutting edge of something / filo de cuchillo (X) [(4)Xp.48]. See TEQU(I),-YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.

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