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intlaca.

Headword: 
intlaca.
Principal English Translation: 

if not

Orthographic Variants: 
yntlaca
IPAspelling: 
intɬɑːkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

Intlaca. sino. Conjunction.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 39r.

Frances Karttunen: 

INTLĀCA if not, otherwise / y si no (M), para negar, si no (C) [(7)Cf.27r,27V]. See INTLĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 106.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

intlāca = if not
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 504.