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tlācatīhuani.

Headword: 
tlācatīhuani.
Principal English Translation: 

midwife

Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 165.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācatīhuani
Attestations from sources in English: 

in īmāc tlācatīhuani = the midwife (the one in whose hands people are born)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 165.