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tlacacahualli.

Headword: 
tlacacahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a loose or an untied animal (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacahcāhualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkɑhkɑːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACAHCĀHUAL-LI loose animal / desatado (animal) (Z) [(2)Zp.41,204]. This contrasts with TLĀCACĀHUAL-LI ‘widower.’ In one attestation Z marks the vowel of TLA- long, but it should not be. See CAHCĀHUA(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.