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cacalachin.

Headword: 
cacalachin.
Principal English Translation: 

a cockroach (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cācalāch
IPAspelling: 
kɑːkɑlɑːtʃ
Frances Karttunen: 

CĀCALĀCH-IN pl: -TIN cockroach / cucaracha (T) [(2)Tp.117]. X has CALĀCH-IN, pl:-MEH, apparently an apocopated form, with the same sense. CĀCALĀCH-IN has a different vowel length pattern from the verb CACALACA ‘to rattle’ and the associated noun CACALACH-TLI, which might otherwise be taken to be related in sense.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.