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cacaltic.

Headword: 
cacaltic.
Principal English Translation: 

someone thin, gaunt (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑkɑltik
Frances Karttunen: 

CACALTIC someone thin, gaunt / flaco, delgado (Z) [(2)Zp.60,143]. See CACALACHTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

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