Tlah or -tlan

Michael McCafferty mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Sat Feb 27 04:28:07 UTC 2010


Quoting lahunik.62 at skynet.be:

> Tlah or -tlan.
>
> The difference between the two locatives, -tlah and -tlan, is that -tlan is
> exclusive used to form a toponym. In most cases there is an assimilation of
> L+TL=LL:
>
>         Tlaxcal-lan
>
>         Tol-lan.
>
> The use of -tlah is more generalized, a place, an agglomeration or a region.



or a time: huehuetlah, ilamatlah


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