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tlamamaltiqui.

Headword: 
tlamamaltiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who bears a load (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamāmaltihqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑːmɑltihki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMĀMALTIHQUI someone who bears a load / cargador (Z) [(2)Zp.25,210]. In both attestations Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long. Z also has synonymous TLAMĀMAHQUI. See MĀMALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 280.