physician or surgeon, someone competent in a specialty (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlamah
IPAspelling:
tɬɑhmɑh
Alonso de Molina:
tlama. medico o zurujano. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TLAHMAH physician or surgeon, someone competent in a specialty / médico o cirujano (M), el médico, o official de habilidad (C) [(1)Cf.128v]. A variant of this is TLAHMATQUI. R has TLAMAH ‘someone who knows something,’ which apparently contrasts with this. IHMAT(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 261.