in the hand of, under the power of (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
-mātlan
IPAspelling:
-mɑːtɬɑn
Frances Karttunen:
-MĀTLAN necessarily possessed form in the hand of, under the power of / en su mano (en su poder) (T) [(1)Tp. 131]. See MĀ(I)-TL, -TLAN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 139.