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tlatlallo.

Headword: 
tlatlallo.
Principal English Translation: 

something full of dirt, dust (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtlālloh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑːlloh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLĀLLOH something full of dirt, dust / tiene polvo (T), tiene la cara sucia (T for compound with ĪX-TLI) [(2)Tp.137,231]. Because of the general loss of final glottal stop in T, the final H is not attested in this item. See TLĀL-LI, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 264.