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tlatlacuania.

Headword: 
tlatlacuania.
Principal English Translation: 

to take things away (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtlahcuaniā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑhkwɑniɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLAHCUANIĀ to take things away / quita (T) [(3)Tp.231]. T has E for A in the third syllable. Here the fused prefix TLA- /263/ is reduplicated instead of the verb stem itself. See (I)HCUANIĀ.

TLAHTLAHCUANILIĀ applic. TLAHTLAHCUANIĀ.

TLAHTLAHCUANĪLŌ nonact. TLAHTLAHCUANIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 264.