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cuauhtlacatl.

Headword: 
cuauhtlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a man of wood (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlācatl
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwtɬɑːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHTLĀCA-TL man of wood / hombre de palo (C) [(1)Cf.57r.150]. C contrasts this with CUAUHTLAHCA-TL ‘highlander, mountain dweller, savage.’ See CUAHU(I)-TL, TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 64.

themes: 
Wood, wooden material