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tlacacahualli.

Headword: 
tlacacahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a widower (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācacāhualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑkɑːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCACĀHUAL-LI widower / viudo (Z) [(2)Zp.130,204]. This contrasts with TLACAHCĀHUAL-LI ‘loose animal.’ See TLĀCA-TL, CĀHUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.