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cahuactic.

Headword: 
cahuactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something hot (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cahuāctic
IPAspelling: 
kɑwɑːktik
Frances Karttunen: 

CAHUĀCTIC something hot / caliente (Z) [(2)Zp.24,143]. Although Z marks the vowel of the second syllable long in both attestations, the expected form would be a short vowel. See CAHUĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.