the lack of everything, literally the having of nothing, which Karttunen refers to as want or need (as nouns)
Orthographic Variants:
ahtlehpiyaliztli
IPAspelling:
ɑhtlehpiyɑlistɬi
Frances Karttunen:
AHTlEHPIYALIZ-TLI want, need / carestía, necesidad (R)[(1)Rp.63]. R does not indicate the glottal stop of the second syllable. See AHTLE(H), PIY(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 7.