elder brother (from the point of view of a younger sister) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
āchtli
IPAspelling:
ɑːtʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen:
ĀCH-TLI elder brother (from the point of view of a younger sister) / hermano mayor de la hermana menor (C) [(1)Cf.126v,(1)Rp.59]. This seems to be related ACHTO ´first,´but there is a vowel-length discrepancy. It contrasts in vowel length with ACH-TLI ´seed´. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 3.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
nachtzin = the older brother of a woman specifically James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 48.