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cacalachtic.

Headword: 
cacalachtic.
Principal English Translation: 

someone thin, gaunt (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cacalachtic
IPAspelling: 
kɑkɑlɑtʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

CACALACHTIC someone thin, gaunt / flaco, delgado (Z) [(2)Zp.60,143]. One of the two attestations has the vowel of the second syllable long. In two related forms, CACALTIC ‘thin, gaunt’ and CACALCUI ‘to become thin,’ Z does not have a long vowel in the second syllable. See CACALTIC, CACALCUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

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