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tlacamichin.

Headword: 
tlacamichin.
Principal English Translation: 

a snook
This is how the keyword associated with an image of a fish is defined in the Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 62r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/62r/images/792e0272-d... Accessed 25 October 2025.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑmitʃin
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacamichin. vagre o pescado grande.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlacamichin = a large fish; mentioned as a tribute item from the coast of Jalisco
Thomas Calvo, Eustaquio Celestino, Magdalena Gómez, Jean Meyer, and Ricardo Xochitemol, Xalisco, la voz de un pueblo en el siglo XVI (Mexico: CIESAS/CEMCA, 1993).

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Hunting or Fishing
Tributes, Taxation, Service