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amocualli.

Headword: 
amocualli.
Principal English Translation: 

something bad, evil (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ahmōcualli
IPAspelling: 
ɑhmoːkwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

AHMŌCUAL-LI pl: -TIN something bad, evil / mal, malo, mala, no es bueno (T) More common in older texts is the shorter form AHCUAL-LI, but AHMŌCUAL-LI appears in P as well as in the modern sources. See AHMŌ, CUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 6.

See also: 
acualli.