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nahualaci.

Headword: 
nahualaci.
Principal English Translation: 

to take someone by surprise, stealth (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāhualahci
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwɑlɑhsi
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀHUALAHCI vt to take someone by surprise, stealth / le agarra con sorpresa (T) [(6)Tp.194,233]. See NĀHUAL-LI, AHCI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 157.