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tlahuancatzatzi.

Headword: 
tlahuancatzatzi.
Principal English Translation: 

a drunken shout (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlāhuāncātzahtzi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwɑːnkɑːtsɑhtsi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀHUĀNCĀTZAHTZI drunken shout / grito de borracho (T) [(1)Tp.240]. In form this appears to be a verb ‘to shout drunkenly’ rather than a nominalization. See TLĀHUĀNQUI, TZAHTZI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens