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caxaltic.

Headword: 
caxaltic.
Principal English Translation: 

something loose, weak, lacking in substance (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑʃɑltik
Frances Karttunen: 

CAXALTIC something loose, weak, lacking in substance / flojo, suelto (Z) [(3)Zp.60,118,145]. One of the three attestations has the vowel of the second syllable marked long. See CAXĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 26.