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tlacamazate.

Headword: 
tlacamazate.
Principal English Translation: 

someone or something that has rabies (see Karttunen); literally, a compound of person and deer

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācamazāteh, tlacamazatl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑmɑsɑːteh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAMAZĀTEH pl: -MEH someone or something that has rabies / rabia (T), perro con rabia (T for compound with CHICHI) [(4)Tp.124,228]. T has a variant form with short A in the first syllable. M has tlacamaçactl ‘someone rabid or vicious.’ Compare this compound of TLĀCA-TL ‘person’ and MAZĀ-TL ‘deer’ with TLĀCATECOLŌ-TL ‘devil’ where the second element is TECOLŌ-TL ‘owl.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.

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