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canactic.

Headword: 
canactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something very thin or flat, such as a board

IPAspelling: 
kɑnɑktik
Alonso de Molina: 

canactic. cosa delgada, como tabla, estera. lienzo, o cosas semejantes llanas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CANACTIC something thin and flat / cosa delgada, como tabla, estera, lienzo, o cosas semejantes llanas (M), delgado (Z) [(2)Zp.40,144]. In one attestations Z marks the vowel of the first syllable long, but it should not be . See CANĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 24.

IDIEZ morfema: 
canactic.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
s.t. shaved very thin.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Huapalli tlen ayoccanah tilahuac pampa tlahuel quixihxintoqueh. “ʻEduardo, ayoccanah xicxihxima ne huapalli pampa eltocca nelcanactic. ʻ”
IDIEZ morfología: 
canactli, ti1, cā.
IDIEZ gramática: 
quen.