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tlacahueyac.

Headword: 
tlacahueyac.
Principal English Translation: 

a giant

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑweːjɑk
Attestations from sources in English: 

yn tlacaveyac yn aca quittaya iuh motenevaya ye yaumiquiz = When someone saw a giant, thus was it said: Soon he would die in battle. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 175.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yoan onilhuiloc yn ompa tezcatepec yn oquimonextili yn Diablo cequintin pipiltin yuh (fol. 400 vọ) qui yn tlacaueyac = Y me han dicho que allá en Tezcatépec se apareció el Diablo a algunos señores como (fol. 400 vọ) un gigante (centro de México, s. XVI)
Beorges Baudot, "Apariciones diabólicas en un texto náhuatl de Fray Andrés de Olmos," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 353–355.