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tlachipin.

Headword: 
tlachipin.
Principal English Translation: 

drop of liquid (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachipīn
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃipiːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACHIPĪN drop of liquid / gota (T) [(1)Tp.229]. Because of the general loss of word-final N in T, the final consonant here is unattested but can be restored from the related verb form. See CHIPĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 255.