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tlama.

Headword: 
tlama.
Principal English Translation: 

someone knowledgeable (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamah
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMAH someone knowledgeable / sabio (R) [(1)Rp.144]. This apparently contrasts with TLAHMAH ‘physician, specialist.’ See MAT(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 279.

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