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tlaecahuillotl.

Headword: 
tlaecahuillotl.
Principal English Translation: 

shade (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaecahuīllōtl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑekɑwiːlloːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAECAHUĪLLŌ-TL shade / sombra (de un árbol) (T) [(4)Tp.211,239]. M has eucauillotl ‘shade,’ reflexive ecauilia ‘to put oneself in the shade,’ and transitive ecauillotia ‘to shade something’. In T the vowel of the prefix TLA- has idiosyncratically assimilated to the vowel of the stem. See ECAHUĪL-LI, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 259.