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tlacehualli.

Headword: 
tlacehualli.
Principal English Translation: 

shade, or a shadow (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacēhualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑseːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACĒHUAL-LI pl: -TIN shade, shadow / sombra (X) [(3)Xp.93]. X also has this without the absolutive suffix as ‘hat’. See CĒHUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.