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tlalticpactlacatl.

Headword: 
tlalticpactlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

an earthly being, a person of this world (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālticpactlācatl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltikpɑktɬɑːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLTICPACTLĀCA-TL pl: TLĀLTICPACTLĀCAH earthly being, person of this world / hombres de éste mundo (M for plural) [(1)Cf.54r]. See TLĀLTICPAC, TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.