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tlamaceuhqui.

Headword: 
tlamaceuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a penitent person, or a deserving one, a blessed one, a hermit

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑhseːwki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamaceuhqui. lo mesmo es que tlamaceuani.
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: 

TLAMAHCĒUHQUI penitent / penitente, o el que hace algunos ejercicios para merecer, hermitaño o beata, etc. (M) [(1)Bf.10v]. See TLAMAHCĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 279.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Tlamaceuhqui, a personal name = Penitent
James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 121) translated this name from the c. 1580 census of Culhuacan.